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S1 E15

The Crown · Season 1, Episode 15

A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Camilla Parker Bowles: If you care about me as much as you say you do, sir, then you will let go of these ideas about breaking up with Diana.

Prince Charles: Why? Don't you want us to be free? To live our life in the open?

Camilla Parker Bowles: I do. But I want to be humiliated and attacked even less. That's what'll happen if you put me in a popularity contest against her. I will lose. I'm an old woman. I'm a married woman. Nowhere near as pretty, nowhere near as radiant. Someone who looks like me has no place in a fairytale. That's all people want, is a fairytale.

Prince Charles: If they knew the truth about our feelings for one another, they'd have their fairytale.

Camilla Parker Bowles: No. To be the protagonist of a fairy tale, you must first be wronged. A victim. Which, if we were to become public, we would make her. In the narrative laws of fairy tales versus reality, the fairy tale always prevails. She will always defeat me in the court of public opinion.

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