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Tampongate: The real impact of Charles and Camilla's highly sexualised 6-minute call vs how The Crown portrayed it

Whether or not the ‘Tampongate’ scandal would ever make it into The Crown was the question on every viewer’s lips after it was omitted from season four. Never ones to let a real life time frame get in the way of good television, Netflix have delivered the goods in season five. Yahoo UK’s royal executive editor Omid Scobie lifts the lid on this hotly debated public scandal that left royalists in disarray. After all, at the time the hacked phone call was recorded, Charles and Diana were still a picture-perfect couple. Scobie examines how the impact of the scandal is still felt by the Royal Family today and what really happened.