The Crown’s Controversial “Tampongate” Recreation vs. the Real-Life Phone Call

As if it couldn’t get worse for the royal family. Hot on the heels of The Crown’s “Annus Horribilis”—a season five episode dramatizing what was arguably the worst personal year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, between her children’s shattered marriages and tabloid scandals, and her Windsor Castle fire—the Netflix series recreates one of Prince Charles’s most humiliating moments. In the episode “The Way Ahead,” which airs about two months after Charles finally became king, Dominic West and Olivia Williams reenact the intimate 1989 phone call between Charles and Camilla that was illegally recorded, then years later printed and parodied all over… Read Full Article