Camillagate was the name given to the scandal surrounding the affair between Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles. A key factor in the scandal was a tape of a telephone conversation between Charles and Camilla, made on December 18, 1989. His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) (born 14 November 1948), the eldest son of HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is Heir Apparent to the thrones of the United Kingdom and over a dozen Commonwealth... Camilla Parker Bowles (born July 17 1947) was mistress, now girlfriend, of Charles, Prince of Wales. ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Transcript of the telephone conversation (http://www.ohnonews.com/pccpbtr.html).
This view influenced the conspiracy theory that the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in Paris in 1997 was an assassination rather than an accident.
Whatever the negative impact of Squidygate might have had for the Princess of Wales was soon balanced by the publication of taped phone conversations between the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles (Camillagate) which were very damaging to the public perception of his character and a source of much ridicule of him.
The "Camillagate" tape showed no signs of suspicious treatment, and appeared to be just what it was claimed to have been: a recording, "from air", of Charles and Camilla talking privately on 18 December1989.
The continuing relationship between Charles and Camilla was kept secret until the early 1990s, when the rift between Charles and Diana became public knowledge.
It was the "Camillagate" scandal -- tape recordings of a private telephone conversation between Charles and Camilla -- that brought it to the surface.
It has been claimed by royal "insiders", though denied by both the couple and their friends, that their affair had been conducted throughout Charles's engagement.
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