![]() ![]() It was eventually taken up in England by David Sullivan's bizarre Daily Sport 'newspaper', prompting a flurry of faxes of copies of the transcript which permeated every level of Government and the business community.įinally, the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People tabloids, who had almost certainly been waiting to see if any of the smaller publications would be served with a lawsuit for publishing the transcript, 'bravely' printed the entire thing on 17th January 1993, making it available to their combined circulation of millions of Britons. Or perhaps the others were too graphic to allow any hopes of them gaining exposure in the popular press.Īs it was, this transcript was first published in Australia, in a magazine called 'New Idea', and subsequently in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, and America. Perhaps this one was the funniest, or least flattering. If this is true, then perhaps there was some kind of 'editorial decision' regarding which one to re-broadcast. There are also persistent rumors that 27 more such tapes are stashed away in the MI5 vaults. Those who subscribe to this view say that MI5 did it to discredit the Prince, whom they regard as dangerously moderate (or unstable, or insane take your pick). The most persistent rumor is that the conversation was actually recorded by MI5 in the course of their routine surveillance of Palace communications, and re-broadcast by them on multiple occasions until eventually it was picked up an individual and publicized. Some people think the circumstances of its recording sound a little unlikely, and there have always been rumors of the involvement of the British Secret Service department MI5. It was purportedly taken from a recording made on December 18th 1989 by someone using a scanner, which is a device used for eavesdropping on conversations made from mobile phones. Below is a partial transcript of a six-minute telephone conversation between Prince Charles, who is the next in line for the English throne, and his long-time love, a woman named Camilla Parker Bowles.
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