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had been recorded, Diana panicked because any evidence that might be construed as her being
unfaithful to Prince Charles could be used against her, and Diana’s leverage with the Royal Family
depended on the adoration of the public and the sentiment that she was the one that had been
wronged (Brown, 2008, pp. 314-315). However, the tape remained unpublished because the press
was fearful of the damage it could do (Smith, 2007, p. 204). However, gossip about the content of
the tape circulated among the press (Brown, 2008, p. 315). Diana knew that the tape could not stay
hidden forever, but she wanted the relationship between Prince Charles and Camilla to be revealed
to the public beforehand (Smith, 2007, p. 204). The tape was finally published in August 1992
(Brown, 2008, p. 319), and during her 1995
Panorama interview, Diana confirmed the authenticity
of the recording, but denied having been in an adulterous relationship with Gilbey (Smith, 2007, pp.
201-202). The conversation between Prince Charles and Camilla, later dubbed “Camillagate”, was
recorded on December 18, 1989, only weeks before the taping of the conversation between Diana
and Gilbey (Smith, 2007, p. 202). The conversation between Prince Charles and Camilla revealed a
couple that was completely in love that longed for each other, and Camilla’s role as Prince Charles’s
principal comforter and soul mate was clearly revealed (Bradford, 2007, pp. 197-198). In much the
same way
than the Squidgygate tapes, the Camillagate tape remained unpublished until it was first
teased in the press on November 11 and 13, 1992 and then published in its entirety on January 17,
1993 (Brown, 2008, pp. 348, 351).
Per Bradford (2007), the marital troubles of Prince Charles and Diana were very evident when Prince
Charles broke his right arm falling from a horse during a polo match in June 1990. Prince Charles
made it clear that Diana’s attention was unwanted, and instead he wanted Camilla to oversee his
convalescence. While Diana did visit him during the two hospital stays his injury required, it was
Camilla who was by his side in private (p. 197). Diana was hurt that Prince Charles showed such a
lack of interest in her desire to look after him (Brown, 2008, p. 289). However, Bradford (2007) adds,
that near the end of the summer of 1990, Prince Charles and Diana continued to hide their discord
from the public, but the state of their marriage created tensions within the family. Nevertheless,
the courtiers hoped that their marriage would survive in some form, and the two tours that the
couple undertook that year, to Asia and Hungary, falsely showed the press and the public that all
was well in the marriage (pp. 198, 202). Even so, according to Smith (2007), in private Diana’s misery
continued, and she vacillated in her thinking about the marriage from hating Prince Charles to