Charles: He was a bit anxious actuallyCamilla: Was he?
CHARLES: He thought he might have gone a bit far.
CAMILLA: Ah well.
CHARLES: Anyway you know that's the sort of thing one has to beware of. And sort of feel one's way along with - if you know what I mean.
CAMILLA: Mmm. You're awfully good at feeling your way along.
CHARLES: Oh stop! I want to feel my way along you, all over you and up and down you and in and out . . .
CAMILLA: Oh!
CHARLES: Particularly in and out.
CAMILLA: Oh, that's just what I need at the moment.
CHARLES: Is it?
CAMILLA: I know it would revive me. I can't bear a Sunday night without you.
CHARLES: Oh, God.
CAMILLA: It's like that programme Start The Week. I can't start the week without you.
CHARLES: I fill up your tank!
CAMILLA: Yes, you do.
CHARLES: Then you can cope.
CAMILLA: Then I'm all right.
CHARLES: What about me? The trouble is I need you several times a week.
CAMILLA: Mmm, so do I. I need you all the week. All the time.
CHARLES: Oh, God. I'll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be much easier!
CAMILLA (laughing): What are you going to turn into, a pair of knickers? (Both laugh). Oh, you're going to come back as a pair of knickers.
CHARLES: Or, God forbid, a Tampax. Just my luck! (Laughs)
CAMILLA: You are a complete idiot! (Laughs) Oh, what a wonderful idea.
CHARLES: My luck to be chucked down a lavatory and go on and on forever swirling round on the top, never going down.
CAMILLA (laughing): Oh darling!
CHARLES: Until the next one comes through.
CAMILLA: Oh, perhaps you could just come back as a box.
CHARLES: What sort of box?
CAMILLA: A box of Tampax, so you could just keep going.
CHARLES: That's true.
CAMILLA: Repeating yourself . . . (laughing). Oh, darling, oh I just want you now.
CHARLES: Do you?
CAMILLA: Mmm.
CHARLES: So do I.
CAMILLA: Desperately, desperately, desperately. Oh, I thought of you so much at Yaraby.
CHARLES: Did you?
CAMILLA: Simply mean we couldn't be there together.
CHARLES: Desperate. If you could be here - I long to ask Nancy sometimes.
CAMILLA: Why don't you?
CHARLES: I daren't.
CAMILLA: Because I think she's so in love with you.
CHARLES: Mmm.
CAMILLA: She'd do anything you asked.
CHARLES: She'd tell all sorts of people.
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Non-FictionFull Embarrassing Transcript of a telephone conversation between King Charles III and his Queen Consort Camilla Parker Bowels.