[high-pitched tone droning]
[Kate Winslet] What is the opposite of harmony?
We could argue, it's a disconnection.
[horns honking]
Like being cut off from each other and from nature.
[solemn music playing]
New technological breakthroughs keep making life better for so many...
...but could we be losing something vital along the way?
Every day, we're told the natural world is on fire.
Where's the hope?
[uplifting music playing]
Well, we've been out searching.
Which brings us to Harmony.
People who practice Harmony invite us to see the world in a new way.
They suggest that the very things we've become disconnected from
may hold the key to our future.
And they claim that, even if we've broken nature,
once we bring her back, the land, people and communities can all be healed.
If they're right, then maybe the future is full of hope.
♪ ♪
And the man who has spent a lifetime building Harmony...
Well, that's also a bit of a surprise.
-I wasn't... I wasn't expecting that. -[Kristina Murrin laughing]
[Murrin] A reception crew, sir.
[wind blowing]
-[birds chirping] -[water flowing]
[bagpipes playing in distance]
[bird calling]
[bagpipes continue playing]
[Winslet] What is Harmony?
And what's it got to do with King Charles III?
As it happens, for over 50 years, the King has been experimenting
with ways to bring nature back into every part of our lives.
He calls it Harmony, and it's been catching on.
♪ ♪
[bagpipes fade]
[guide] ...3D manner to make it look like a 3D effect and fill the shadows.
A key item I'd really like to show you are these caskets here...
[Winslet] Today more than ever, people are flocking to venues
run by The King's Foundation
to learn how they can create Harmony for their own families and communities.
[low, indistinct conversations]
And that's certainly what interested me.
[uplifting music playing]
[Murrin] One of our jobs here is to bring together different people, so you've got--
Yes, you've got presidents, but you've got academics,
-you've got farmers, you've got-- -Yeah. Thought leaders. You've got--
Yeah, all sorts of people.
And-and that doesn't happen very often, so when you bring them together,
that's when you get really interesting sparks.
[indistinct conversation]
Now, you two have to meet my fantastic friend...
[Murrin] The boss has a few favorite phrases and one of them is,
-"Seeing is believing." -[Simon Sadinsky] Mm.
[Murrin] If you get people to Dumfries House and they see what's going on,
they'll get it.
And they go, "Right, w-we need this. We need to take it back.
-We need to do something." -[Sadinsky] Mm. Mm.
[low, indistinct conversations]
[music fades]
[birds chirping]
[Winslet] Throughout his life,
the King developed a core set of beliefs about our world,
which have at times got him into trouble.
[King Charles III] Give them a good chance to see them...
-Definitely, definitely. -[continues indistinctly]
[Winslet] Over and over, people even dismissed him as crazy,
but today his ideas seem more like common sense.
To follow this journey, we will travel with him back in time...
Good morning, everybody. Good morning.
-Good morning. -[Rob Dersley] This is our film team.
This is Jane, who is the assistant producer, sir.
[Winslet] ...as it's the King's untold personal story
that shows us how Harmony can transform our future.
-Had we better crack on? -Absolutely.
[Dersley] Uh, I haven't introduced you to the technical team.
They've now set themselves up.
-This is Adam who is doing the sound, sir. -[Adam] Lovely to meet you, Your Majesty.
-Uh... -That is heavy, though.
-[Adam] It is quite heavy. -[laughter]
[indistinct chatter]
Anyway, I l-look forward to seeing how it all ends up, if you know what I mean.
[Nicolas Brown] It's a heck of a story.
It will be nice to try and see if we can get through to people,
but who knows? [grunts softly]
[loud booming]
[narrator] Her Royal Highness is the proud and happy mother of a Prince.
The salute is fired,
and in the Monarch's home lies the infant boy who will one day be king.
[upbeat music playing]
[King Charles III] I was born in 1948.
By the mid 1950s,
a frenzy of change was sweeping the world...
[crowd cheering]
...and that created a new age of radical experimentation
in every major field of human endeavor.
[Winslet] It's no accident that the King discovered Harmony
during a time of unprecedented change.
Historians call it the Great Acceleration.
[playful shouting, laughter]
When the King was born, our planet was home to 2.5 billion people,
but in mere decades, that number has tripled.
And as the human population exploded,
our ability to house and feed ourselves grew even faster.
Suddenly, millions of us began living longer, consuming more
and traveling the world in ways our forebears couldn't dream of.
While most people in 1960s Britain were enjoying the benefits,
some noticed that all this progress came at a price.
[solemn music playing]
[King Charles III] When I was a teenager in the '60s,
I saw so much being destroyed around us.
All our precious flourished meadows and wetlands
and the hedges were ripped up and the trees cut down.
The centers of our towns and cities were ripped out.
You know, it was all going on at a huge pace.
And I remember thinking, "But this is gonna go too far."
[music fades]
[Winslet] At the time, public discussions about the environment were rare.
So, when the 21-year-old Prince gave one of his first public speeches,
many were shocked by what he had to say.
We are faced, at the moment,
with the horrifying effects of pollution
in all its cancerous forms.
There is the growing menace of oil pollution at sea.
There is chemical pollution discharged into rivers from factories
and chemical plants, which clogs up the rivers
with toxic substances and adds to the filth in the seas.
Well, it was quite a long time ago,
and I, I remember being... [sighs] well,
profoundly, you know, concerned about all this.
[solemn music playing]
It seemed crazy to go on
without thinking carefully about how we manage all this.
[Ian Skelly] By the time I started to hear the then Prince of Wales
making these statements, they did, they did resonate.
♪ ♪
I can remember thinking, yes, this chap is concerned about things,
which of course wasn't something that you'd expect
from a member of the royal family, you know.
They-they didn't, they didn't... they didn't talk about these things.
[seagulls squawking]
[upbeat music playing]
[indistinct chanting]
[Winslet] The Prince may have lived a life apart,
yet his views struck a common chord.
By April 22, 1970,
20 million people took to the streets to celebrate the first Earth Day.
Many say the environmental movement was born.
[crowd cheering]
♪ ♪
[Patrick Holden] There was a shift of consciousness
which was going on all over the world at that time.
And I think there was some sort of yearning
that the Prince had to be part of that.
Probably never quite articulated, but I think nevertheless felt.
So, even though he had this very privileged upbringing,
very separate from normal people,
at some level, he was affected by this atmosphere of change.
Jamie Oliver once said
he was a bit of a hippie, and I think that's probably true.
[music ends]
-[chickens clucking] -Come on.
Come along.
Come on.
Now...
Here.
Come on.
-[latch opening] -[clucking]
Oh, it's all right. Let me see.
Come on.
[speaking quietly] Come on.
-[clucking continues] -All right, all right.
[clucking continues]
[Brown] See, that looks good. That's a good haul.
Well, the great thing is you give them something in return, always.
[both chuckling]
At least they can peck about out here. They love it.
There we are.
[Winslet] In 1980, the then Prince of Wales moved into Highgrove,
where he still lives today.
[uplifting music playing]
What no one knew back then was that he had plans
to turn his home into a test bed for his radical ideas about Harmony.
[King Charles III] When I first came here, this was completely empty.
And, um, and half the wall
had gone.
I then thought of a plan which was based on
the St. Andrew's cross and the St. George's cross.
[uplifting music fades]
I wanted to find ways of ensuring that you could rescue
all these, um, threatened heritage varieties.
-[Brown] Yes. Yeah. -Of everything.
You have all the vegetables: potatoes, cauliflower, peas, beans.
I mean, a lot of them were being just abandoned.
So, I did my utmost to have as many rare breeds here as possible,
to demonstrate how valuable they are,
because of course concentrating on just a few varieties
-makes us unbelievably vulnerable... -Mm.
...as we're finding, to disease and everything else.
And half the battle, I think, is to find the right varieties.
If you want to have decent baked potatoes,
which I love, you've got to get the crispy skins.
So, what do you--
So, the Red Duke of Yorks are very good... [laughing]
...we've discovered, again through trial and error.
[Winslet] The King's efforts to protect the diversity of fruits and vegetables
was a part of his overall mission
to bring nature back into farming and gardening.
[uplifting music playing]
In the first half of the 20th century,
old farming systems couldn't keep up with the sudden increase in human population.
Mass famines claimed tens of millions of lives all over the world.
But scientists came to the rescue in what has been hailed as the green revolution.
They invented a suite of industrial farming techniques
that proved wildly successful.
In a short time, we grew more food than we needed
and saved millions of lives in the process.
The scientists won Nobel Prizes,
and the human population could grow unhindered.
But there was still a problem.
[music fades]
[engine idling]
[Tony Juniper] The green revolution, where we had this massive emphasis
on producing more and more food,
it harnessed several strands of-of new activity.
One was the production of toxic pesticides
to wipe out most living things in the landscape except the crop.
[dramatic music playing]
There was the production of vast quantities of artificial fertilizer
produced with fossil fuels and nitrogen from the atmosphere,
harnessed for the explicit goal of fostering maximum growth.
[narrator] We must fight our insect enemies
with every weapon science can devise.
♪ ♪
[Winslet] During the green revolution,
farmers enlarged their fields and planted monocultures.
They then enriched the soil with chemical fertilizers
that supercharged plant growth.
But this caused everything to grow, not just the crops.
So, they had to add chemical herbicides and pesticides
to kill everything except the crop.
To this day, around the world,
soil that once thrived in a harmonious web of life has been collateral damage.
The green revolution was fantastic. Absolutely.
We need more food. We still do.
But not at the expense of nature.
[Holden] Chemical fertilizers and then pesticides had become
embedded in agricultural practice and policy
for a whole generation, and then along comes
the Prince of Wales and says, "Well, actually, that's not right."
[Prince Charles] No matter how cost-effective
intensive food production appears to be,
our current approach will lead to a dead end.
We must put nature back at the heart of the equation.
[Skelly] The then Prince of Wales started
this, uh, experiment in a corner of Home Farm
at Highgrove.
[narrator] For Prince Charles, Highgrove House in Gloucestershire
is where the Prince has begun to put into practice
his ideas about man's place in the natural world.
The gardens, woods, parkland and farms are all run
within a regime that works with nature,
rather than with the aid of chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides.
[chuckles softly]
That's a very nice reminder of my dogs, I must say.
But, um,
I felt the time had come to demonstrate how you could restore soil fertility,
because by then, the soil had lost all its life.
[sheep bleating]
All this sort of thing was considered
completely bonkers... [laughs]
...to say the least.
[gentle music playing]
[Juniper] News headlines began to appear, um,
around the Prince of Wales having purchased
an organic farm in Gloucestershire.
And in those days, organic was not really very understood.
[Brian Archer] He's going organic.
What do you mean organic?
You mean with no chemicals, just lots and lots of manure?
[Brian] Yep, the natural approach.
[Peggy] They'll be living like peasants.
[Brian] They'll be working like dogs.
[Holden] There were many people who surrounded him
and advised him that he should be careful in what he got involved with.
Organic farming was something which was not mainstream
and something which was a perilous sphere to engage with.
[Winslet] While explaining his passion for organic gardening to the press,
Prince Charles made a comment that's haunted him ever since.
[Prince Charles] Oh, I love coming here, and I potter about and sit and read,
or I just come and talk to the plants, really.
Very important to talk to them. They respond, don't they?
[laughing]
[Amelia Fawcett] As the press always does,
they pick up on the sound bite that they can then
ridicule, um, about talking to plants,
um, and that starts to become...
the narrative.
[Juniper] It was used as a way of diminishing
the organic argument
and presenting him as somehow slightly odd and slightly dotty.
[Holden] Those criticisms really upset him.
He got treated very unfairly
and seen very unfairly,
and those of us that knew him better were quite upset by that.
And it was difficult to know how to respond, but I really felt for him.
-[birds chirping] -[sheep bleating]
[Winslet] Despite the opposition,
Prince Charles's farm began selling organic food.
Duchy Originals became a national brand,
and to date, their sales have raised over 50 million pounds for charity.
[uplifting music playing]
The success of the Prince's first Harmony experiment
has inspired nature-based farming practices around the world.
[cattle mooing]
[Holden] What we developed and the King has championed for 40 years,
to move to its next phase,
where the principles and the practices of organic farming
can be taken to scale.
And one of them is regenerative agriculture.
[bees buzzing]
[Winslet] Regenerating topsoil and bringing nature back onto farms
could mean we eat better.
It also means we might store more carbon in the soil
and slow climate change.
[Holden] That is a big shift which is just taking place now, actually.
Interestingly, after all these years,
the Harmony project's time has come.
And it really has.
♪ ♪
[music fades]
[solemn music playing]
[Winslet] After Highgrove, Prince Charles was ready to scale up from farming.
He wanted to find out if Harmony could benefit an entire community.
So, in the 2000s, he began looking around the United Kingdom
in areas that had fallen on hard times.
[reporter] It was coal mining that made the Cumnock area,
and it was coal mining that unmade it,
created an economy overdependent on a single industry,
and as one pit closure followed another throughout the '80s,
it left an area ill-equipped to readjust to the small business enterprise culture.
[Winslet] In the 1980s, many heavy industries and manufacturing
left the UK for foreign shores.
The Cumnock area in Scotland was particularly hard hit...
...and even country estates like Dumfries House were falling apart.
[King Charles III] When I discovered that this place was due to be sold
and everything in it,
eventually I took a, a...
a somewhat, you know, risky decision to...
raise the money in a loan.
[man] This exercise is a huge amount of money,
and if this goes wrong, we've got problems.
[upbeat music playing]
[Winslet] The then Prince gambled his reputation
on a dream larger and more complex than Highgrove.
With Dumfries House, his plan was not only to heal the land
but bring Harmony to the surrounding community as well.
[Prince Charles] We'll get there in the end.
Let's hope, anyway.
[King Charles III] I felt it was critical to try and demonstrate
how you could regenerate an entire area.
How we could help raise aspirations and create new hope
by bringing people together
in a thoroughly integrated, uh, collaborative way.
Sustainability, the whole-- all that agenda, is critical here
because in order to make-- I want to say this area
is a great example of how you can create new business and jobs
in the green economy.
♪ ♪
[Murrin] His Majesty saved this property
for the community, and we started really very simply
some of the principles he'd had at Highgrove.
So, let's put nature at the center, so he opens up the ground.
Then we needed to restore the house.
We couldn't find the stonemasons, the carpenters to do it,
so we went, "Oh, right, we better start training them."
Then we needed people to work in the house,
and there weren't the hospitality programs that we wanted
that were done in a sustainable way, so we started teaching those courses.
So, each element has really built based on what the community needs.
[music fades]
[Winslet] It was easy to see how the Dumfries House estate had improved,
but what was the impact on people?
The story of Stuart Banks stood out.
When Stuart's father was injured, he struggled to find work.
And when Stuart was only 12, his father took his own life.
[solemn music playing]
You can see parallels in my personal story to the area.
The kind of loss in the coal mines and the loss of industry in the area.
It was a big shock in the system.
It's kind of hard to get over, and especially when you're so young,
you kind of lose the motivation to do anything.
And that kind of led me into
dropping out of school early.
By the time I was like 14, 15, I was proper housebound.
I was in that kind of reclused hole.
That empty hole.
I think when you're in that position, you think you can't be healed.
It took me a long time to kind of build back up,
and it was not an overnight thing.
I did start going to the JobCentre and asking for things.
The JobCentre said that there was a five-week hospitality course
at Dumfries House.
[optimistic music playing]
I was there a couple of weeks, and I started to get the bug.
I knew what they were doing here was something a little bit special.
I got inspired.
My motivation increased and increased and increased...
...and by the end of the course, they offered me a job.
It was, like, the first time, uh, someone in my life,
outside of, like, my close family,
had really put-put their arm on my shoulder and said, "Look,
you can do it."
♪ ♪
[Winslet] It's not just Stuart.
All the people we met at Dumfries House belong to a larger ecosystem.
[mooing]
The farm, the restaurant and the house,
even the woodworkers and textile designers--
everyone is striving to live sustainably from the land.
-Beautiful. Thank you very much. -Yeah.
We'll make good use of them.
[Winslet] And most of the skills they practice and teach
are connected to the heritage of this region of Scotland.
[Murrin] Dumfries House has really become a driver
for the economy here.
You know, we are one of the biggest employers in the area.
We train 10,000 people here a year.
-Yeah. -Is it, is it straight, as well.
[King Charles III] You're getting better and better at it. I can't get over it.
-Can-- -[Graheme] Me either.
-No. -[both laughing]
[Murrin] We've got students who will tell you
they come from three generations of families that had never been employed.
But there's a future here.
[King Charles III laughing]
[happy chattering]
[David Cadman] When he saves Dumfries House, he doesn't save it
as an object, just to be looked at.
He saves it
to bring healing to the local community,
to bring vitality, a new vitality,
and, of course, this-this links us to Harmony.
Because for a community to flourish,
you need harmonious order and balance.
[birds chirping]
[Stuart] Whether it's in nature,
whether it's in people,
um, I think, um, he is focused
on not leaving something broken and trying to fix what he can.
And I think it has definitely rubbed off, you know.
[Stuart] To anyone who's new here, welcome.
We hope you have a lovely time with us.
The Tea Dance is something that we run regularly throughout the year.
So, if this is your first time, we do hope to see you back.
[violins tuning]
[low chattering]
[upbeat intro playing]
[Murrin] The Tea Dance came from such a simple insight.
[lively music playing]
You go up to the Health & Wellbeing Centre and you say,
"Okay, what should we be doing next?"
And they tell you how lonely a lot of old people are.
They can go days without talking to people.
♪ ♪
Common sense, it's gonna have an impact on your mental health, but also
the impact it has on your physical health as well.
So, what a simple idea.
♪ ♪
[Stuart] This place changed my life,
and it's great seeing people who may have struggled in the past
coming out and being confident, enthusiastic,
and they get right into it.
♪ ♪
[woman] Lovely to see you.
-You ready for a dance today? -Yes, of course I am.
Sure-- Make sure it's a nice...
-slow one. -A slow one?
-Oh... -Hey, you gonna hold my hand as well?
-If you like. -I mean, I'm...
[laughter]
♪ ♪
[Winslet] Once the community here started to see tangible benefits from Harmony,
word began to spread.
[music fades]
And as we discovered, it's this philosophy of Harmony that can be applied
even when you're not on a beautiful country estate.
[Muhammed Foulds] Here at HMP Bristol, we are a Cat B very-high-security prison.
Prisoners are coming here for all sorts of reasons,
from drugs to abuse to mental issues, gang culture.
[metal door slams shut]
We are seeing these individuals come in here
because society's broken, the family's broken.
So, of course, you're gonna get broken individuals.
[Foulds] Okay, guys, if you just come round here.
Welcome to HMP Bristol's beekeeping academy.
All the bees that you are seeing at the moment are the foraging bees,
and they're out there collecting the pollen and the nectar.
All these bees work in harmony. Okay?
-Hence the Harmony project here. -[bees buzzing loudly]
[Osien] Look at that.
There's honey inside there.
[inmate] Oh, [bleep].
I've got one on my hand and my pocket.
[Osien] Give you a sting?
[inmate] No, but it's about to. Oh, [bleep].
99.99% of prisoners are here
because they have no understanding of a relationship.
Husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, family breakdown.
The natural world will teach them about relationships,
how to think as an ecosystem.
-[gentle music playing] -[bees buzzing]
[Andrew] When you see 'em all working as one,
yeah, it's-it's quite a fascinating thing.
I mean, I feel quite relaxed.
Even though they could attack you at any time, they don't.
They just go along with their own daily thing.
-♪ ♪ -[buzzing quietly]
[Foulds] The whole life of a hive is a system, is a city within a city.
And they make that connection.
Y-You're not just an individual, but you live within a community.
Then we make that link with wider society, and we keep emphasizing
the umbrella of every step is Harmony.
-♪ ♪ -[buzzing quietly]
[music fades]
[birds chirping]
[Winslet] The core belief of the Harmony project
is that nature has the power to both teach and heal.
That's one reason the gardens at Dumfries House are free
and open to the public.
[Jessie Mitchell] What a lovely way to spend the evening.
[birds chirping]
Beautiful.
-[leaves rustling] -[birds calling]
I'm 91.
Sometimes it's not till you're older
that you appreciate these things, because we're too busy working.
[birds chirping]
It wasn't until I retired
and started getting out and about and going to different places
and realizing what nature was like.
So, I just love it.
Hear the birds.
[birds chirping]
Absolutely relaxed.
I can forget my pain for a wee while.
This, this takes your mind away.
Stops you thinking about yourself.
[gentle music playing]
[Willis] When we're in nature,
nature passes into our bodies.
-[birds chirping] -[leaves rustling]
When you breathe in a smell,
the scent that you're smelling is a volatile organic compound.
It hits air from a plant, it turns into gas.
And that's why you get a lovely smell.
Think about lavender or pine or cedar.
All of these beautiful smells.
♪ ♪
And what they've shown is when people walk,
for example, in a pine forest, pine molecules have passed into the blood.
Some of these scents interact with the same biochemical pathways
as if it's a prescription drug.
And these are automatic changes
that happen in our body whether or not we think,
"I'm in nature, I'm relaxed" or not.
[music fades]
[King Charles III] The beeches I'd planted right at the beginning.
[laughs] I can't believe how, how much they've grown.
Beginning, it was going in like this.
I thought I'd never live to see.
The fact that I have is, you know-- praise be to God, frankly.
Hence, I built that little sanctuary.
I built it to-to mark the millennium.
But it's all built of earth and straw from here.
[Tobyn] Is this where you find your Harmony, sir?
A little bit. I hope.
-Or ask for more of it, I hope. -[Tobyn laughs]
For everybody else.
So, you see, I had this quote from a prayer book.
"Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord."
That's the other point of Harmony, how do you link the two together,
because we... we are a microcosm of the macrocosm.
There are these universal principles which seem to apply.
You know, all our bodies and everything are constructed
around these proportionate systems,
as are all the rest-- as are all the rest of nature.
[gentle music playing]
[Winslet] Meeting the King, you get the feeling he believes strongly
in the physical and even spiritual connection we all share with nature.
It's a relationship that he feels in his lifetime has been steadily eroding.
[dramatic music playing]
[Skelly] We did become so disconnected from the world that we inhabit,
and once you become disconnected,
you don't think it's your responsibility.
[Juniper] The scientific revolution
took us into a view of the world being a mechanism
rather than an integrated sacred whole...
♪ ♪
...and then into our modern world
where we sit behind computer screens and we're consumers
who've now lost sight of how the planet's life support systems work.
[Winslet] In the 1980s, Prince Charles once again emerged
as an early voice questioning the modern way of doing things.
Only this time, his focus was on the way we build our cities and towns.
Too many of our modern buildings are huge,
blank and impersonal.
We have created somewhat
godforsaken cities from which nature,
or indeed the spiritual side of life, has almost been erased.
[Skelly] I remember the then Prince of Wales talked about this
deep connection between the built and the natural world,
and we severed it.
[Winslet] Searching for a better way to build towns and cities,
Prince Charles started a school for designers and architects
whose work focused on reviving our connection with nature.
[Richard] We're calling this a chiral pattern,
so it has mirror symmetry, and...
[Khaled Azzam] The then Prince of Wales, I think, was interested in us because
we were, you know, investigating, looking at nature, the order of nature,
that sense of unity and truth that holds the world
and our existence together.
And I think this is something
the Prince of Wales really wanted to form as the core of his thinking.
We don't teach geometry for the sake of teaching geometry.
This is not about cosmetic patterns.
This is about how we understand
that these things are cosmic and how they relate
to the cosmos that we live in.
It's about understanding this constantly creative order around us.
[uplifting music playing]
[Winslet] Scholars call it sacred geometry or the grammar of harmony.
And they've been mapping the many patterns that recur across space and time.
♪ ♪
From microscopic organisms to the human body...
...up to the eight-year-long shapes made by Venus in the night sky...
...it seems that everything in our world is united by natural mathematics.
And whether we are aware of it or not,
these ever-unfolding shapes have a profound effect
on our emotions and our well-being.
In a word, they inspire awe.
♪ ♪
[Holden] Everything is connected. Nothing is separate.
So, it's very empowering to an individual person
who's trying to make sense of the world in which I find myself
to know that within my own experience,
even within my own body, are the laws and the principles
which find expression in everything in the world we find ourselves.
[heart beating]
We are nature.
We are a part of nature, not apart from nature.
[Winslet] Archaeologists discovered how, from the beginning,
the order of nature inspired human creativity.
Back then, nature dominated our lives.
The seasons and cycles set the tempo.
[ice crackling]
And as our civilizations grew,
we used the grammar of harmony in our most sacred monuments and buildings.
[uplifting music swells]
Even as more of us moved into towns and cities,
we brought the order of nature with us, creating spaces inspired by wild beauty.
However, as our technology became ever more impressive,
we turned our backs on the natural world.
[discordant music playing]
The order of nature became overshadowed by the order of mankind.
[low chatter]
[Dominic Richards] We've seen the industrialization
of so many different parts of our lives.
That industrialization, whether it's large-scale tower blocks
that treat human beings as battery hens or chickens
in battery hen industrial farming, it denies something about our spirit,
and it denies something of, uh, harmony and nature,
which His Majesty has long fought against.
[explosion]
[man] Today, Britain faces its worst housing crisis since wartime.
Thousands of flats and homes are desired by no one,
least of all by the people who live in them.
[woman] There must be reasons why these architects, uh,
build these flats in this design and this hard barrack-looking way,
because I'm sure they couldn't possibly like the outlook of them themselves.
[solemn music playing]
[Richards] These postwar tower blocks were poorly constructed buildings,
which tended to be social housing,
places where people's aspirations and abilities to get on in life
were restricted by the built form.
-[dog barking] -So, you therefore
created societal problems.
[siren wailing in distance]
[music fades]
[Winslet] Inspired by ideas emerging from his school of architecture,
Prince Charles began to challenge the way Britain
was developing its towns and cities.
[upbeat music playing]
[Prince Charles] Birmingham city centre became a monstrous concrete maze.
Cars were placed above people,
and people were placed one above the other on concrete shelves.
[Azzam] When we went through architecture school,
we were not allowed to question certain things.
You can't question these... these icons of architecture.
But this lack of questioning of what they're doing and the agenda
with which they're producing buildings or interpreting our cultural heritage,
um, had to be questioned, and he did question that.
[Prince Charles] Look at the Bullring.
It has no charm, no character.
It's a planned accident.
It's the central library, but how could you tell?
It looks like a place where books are incinerated, not kept.
That is redolent of a word processor.
I try very hard, I must say, to persuade myself to appreciate that,
but I can't.
I can't.
♪ ♪
The big story, of course, was when he stood up and criticized this new design
for the extension to the National Gallery.
[Prince Charles] What is proposed
seems to me like a monstrous carbuncle
on the face of a much-loved elegant friend.
[Skelly] That was the big moment when
his concerns about architecture went around the world.
[Richards] He upset a lot of people in authority, paradoxically.
And when the orthodoxy was challenged,
that's when people's backs got up.
Nostalgic, and certainly, I believe, very out of time
with current architectural thought.
I don't see why in the 21st century we should be building fairyland.
Because everybody shoots their mouth off, it doesn't mean to say they talk sense.
[Richards] The debate around architecture and urban planning
became railroaded into a style war.
There was a characterization that His Majesty wanted
to live in some idyllic Jane Austen world.
But His Majesty was speaking for a lot of us
who just felt like we don't necessarily agree
in the way that we're developing and building our cities or our towns,
that we want to look at things differently.
-[dog barking] -[music fades]
[Skelly] The Prince of Wales, as was,
knew that there is another way of building,
another way of thinking about urban design,
that has a better chance
of cohering communities rather than ignoring what a community needs.
Plans for a new town on land belonging to the Prince of Wales
have been unveiled today.
The development, to be called Poundbury,
will be built just outside Dorchester
on farmland owned by the Duchy of Cornwall.
It's the Prince's first opportunity to put his ideas on architecture
into practice on such a large scale.
[Winslet] In designing Poundbury, the Prince set about trying to solve problems
that he felt were plaguing modern cities.
For example, how to narrow the growing gap between the rich and the poor.
[upbeat music playing]
[Cadman] In Poundbury, affordable housing is included
with the more general housing,
but it's not defined.
So, you're mixing the community up
with much greater sensitivity.
[happy chattering]
[Richards] His Majesty cares about the whole of society.
And if you look at society
as an organism, the whole of that society needs to be healthy and well.
[birds chirping]
[Winslet] Crucially, Poundbury was designed around nature,
so every resident lives a short walk away from open green space.
[Willis] Scientists did a ten-year study,
and they looked at about three million people
and looked at how close they lived to urban green space.
And they showed that every 350 meters you were further away from green space,
the worse off you were in terms of your mental health over those ten years.
Green space and access to it in cities is so critical.
♪ ♪
[King Charles III] I've tried to demonstrate how Harmony in practice
could be made to work rather than just talk about all these things.
To see is there something perhaps here to learn from.
[Winslet] Poundbury, like Dumfries House, is founded upon the philosophy of Harmony,
and both places exist in a relatively wealthy and stable United Kingdom.
But what if you live in a part of the world that hasn't been so fortunate?
-[dramatic music playing] -[guns firing]
Afghanistan has been in and out of war since 1979.
And after the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York,
America and her allies took control of the country from the Taliban.
[music fades]
Five years later, Prince Charles approached
a newly-elected president Karzai
with the idea of a Harmony project in the heart of Kabul.
[traffic sounds, horns honking]
The charity they founded is still going,
and we accompanied its president, Shoshana Stewart, to her headquarters.
[Stewart] I love this courtyard.
I remember when it was completely destroyed.
And to walk in here and see all the flowers, it's just a total joy.
If you go back to the early 2000s,
in many ways, Afghanistan was the center of the world at that time
because there was a huge international intervention.
And meanwhile, there's an insurgency going on.
[solemn music playing]
-[distant gunfire] -There were
suicide attacks in Kabul multiple times a week.
The old city of Kabul was neglected and crumbling.
Every building had some combination of one to four walls left.
[uplifting music playing]
The first thing to do was just deal with the piles of rubble.
So, we basically just employed every eligible person around
with a wheelbarrow and shovel.
We realized very quickly there was no water supply, sanitation, electricity.
Those houses needed running water, and they needed to be electrified.
They needed health care, which ended up in us
creating the clinic.
What began
with buildings and a school of traditional arts
became all the stuff that you need in a living community.
♪ ♪
[music fades]
[Winslet] In 2010, Prince Charles made a visit to see for himself
the progress the charity had made.
[Stewart] Every interaction that I've had with His Majesty
about this project has been a genuine love
of that place and of wanting to hear about the people who made these things.
[low conversations]
He'll pick out little details,
because he has a love of these traditions and of the sacred geometry behind them.
[Winslet] Just like at Dumfries House,
the driving force here has been the revival of skills
that form the core of Afghanistan's cultural heritage.
-[uplifting music playing] -[happy chattering]
[Stewart] When we had finished that, we actually cut the ribbon on it.
So, we had a huge party with all of our staff and all the government.
[rhythmic clapping]
[happy chattering, cheering]
And it was a real moment.
[rhythmic clapping continues]
The neighborhood was just so beautiful.
His Majesty has always talked about these livable cities
where you have all the bits that make up community life right near you.
People living, working, worshiping,
getting their health care, getting their education, all within one community.
[rapid gunfire]
[panicked shouting]
[Winslet] For the international alliance,
keeping the peace in Afghanistan proved elusive.
[solemn music playing]
And in 2021, the last remaining foreign troops pulled out.
[reporter] The Taliban is now in control of Afghanistan.
Western countries are scrambling to get their people out.
There's huge uncertainty as well for the aid agencies
upon whom so many Afghans rely.
♪ ♪
[Stewart] It has been very important that we stayed.
I'm here to be in this place and work with the people of this place
and just deal with the messy reality that is before you.
[low conversation]
You can have
an unbelievable impact if you engage,
if you stay.
[upbeat music playing]
[Winslet] Because of their contributions to health care and Afghan heritage,
the charity has been allowed to continue working.
And this means that tens of thousands of Afghan women still have jobs
and access to health care.
♪ ♪
[Stewart] The world is becoming
increasingly more gray
and less clear.
More places are in conflict.
How do we deal with it?
[bird calling in distance]
What resonates about Harmony is
that you are starting from what is beautiful
and then you are building back again.
But that thing that you build
is fundamentally about the goodness that is there.
And I think it works unbelievably well the more difficult things get.
[music fades]
I mean, it's extraordinary, when I first came 45 years ago,
what there used to be and what there isn't now.
And I used to hear cuckoos, which you never hear a single cuckoo now.
And, um... it was all that sort of thing.
And there used to be grasshoppers, and, you know, the-the place used to hum.
And that wonderful sound, you-you don't get much of that,
even though I've done my utmost to, you know, make sure.
[leaves rustling]
[Brown] Are you worried about the state of the world?
[King Charles III] Of course.
[chuckling]
It's been my main motivation for a long, long time,
and you can see what's happening.
But, I mean, the underlying principles behind what I call Harmony,
I think we need to follow if we're going to somehow ensure
that this poor old planet can support so... so many.
It's unlikely there's anywhere else.
[beep, radio static]
[ominous music playing]
[Winslet] Back in the 1980s, environmental threats took a dark turn.
In our oceans, unprecedented underwater heat waves bleached coral reefs.
Then a hole appeared in the layer of ozone
protecting Earth from solar radiation.
This was a new magnitude of danger, threatening all life on Earth.
And scientists were discovering we were the cause.
Again, Prince Charles was among the first public figures to sound the alarm.
[music fades]
[Prince Charles] The ozone layer, marine pollution,
acid rain, global warming:
these rather fateful phrases
have gradually become part of our daily lives.
[solemn music playing]
[Skelly] This was the first time that I became aware that if we carry on
pumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, we are going to create
this duvet cover that hovers over the whole of the world
and keeps all the heat in.
[Winslet] In his documentary Earth in Balance,
the Prince interviewed another environmentalist also sounding the alarm.
[Al Gore] The central philosophical
error that we need to address and correct
is the assertion, for so long, that we as human beings
are separate from the earth.
He and I immediately found so much in common,
and we, uh...
I won't say plotted, because you don't want to use that, uh,
word with, uh, royalty. [chuckles]
But we looked ahead together at how
humanity might rise to this challenge.
[upbeat music playing]
[Winslet] In 1991, the Prince focused his efforts
on the first ever gathering of nations
to address global environmental destruction.
[cameras clicking rapidly]
[reporter] In two days' time,
the formal business of the Earth Summit will begin in Rio.
About 80 or so world leaders are expected to gather there
to discuss a blueprint for environmental protection.
[Juniper] In the run-up to the summit,
the Prince of Wales hosted a gathering of leaders,
including the president of Brazil at the time,
on board the Royal Yacht Britannia, in order to lean in
to the massive challenges that would be on the table.
[Cadman] Bringing people and places together all the time,
he's very good at this.
He gathers. He gathers. [laughs]
[Fawcett] He is what I would call the world's greatest convener.
I don't think there's anybody who can convene people the way he can.
[King Charles III] That's what can really make a difference, I think,
is just facilitating.
Which is what I've tried to do endlessly,
uh, in order to see that we could get a better result.
[reporter] Brazil's president was the first of a dozen leaders today
to sign the climate treaty.
It's aimed at slowing down the effects of global warming
and was drafted only after long and bitter debate.
No sooner had the ink dried today than the critics let fly.
This convention does not bind a single industrialized country
even to freeze its carbon dioxide emissions at present-day levels.
[Winslet] Not every goal was achieved, but because of Rio,
we now have the Conference of Parties, or COP,
meetings that have been held internationally every year since 1995.
[upbeat music playing]
[George W. Bush] The process used
to bring nations together to discuss our joint response
to climate change is an important one.
That is why I am committing the United States of America
to develop an effective and science-based response to the issue of global warming.
[Winslet] The Prince of Wales emerged as a key figure,
making regular keynote speeches
despite cries from some that he should take a back seat.
I just felt that this was the approach that I was gonna stick to,
the course I'd set, and I wasn't gonna be diverted, I'm afraid.
The crisis of climate change is far too urgent,
and discussion simply isn't enough.
It just cannot be "business as usual."
The climate crisis is the mirror in which we see reflected
the combined ecological impact of our industrialized age.
We cannot be anything less, uh, than courageous and revolutionary
in our approach to tackling climate change.
[Skelly] Like a lot of people, I think it's fair to say
he gets very frustrated that so little has happened
despite all of this talking that's gone on.
Now, I have dedicated, uh, much of my life
to the restoration of harmony
between humanity, nature and the environment.
Quite frankly, it has been
a bit of an uphill struggle.
We're very clear, from the climate science, uh, perspective,
about the scale of emissions
and the rate of emissions reductions that are required
if we are to limit the worst impacts of climate change.
And the world currently is simply not on that trajectory.
[solemn music playing]
[Shuckburgh] It's very easy when you're undertaking climate modeling
using computer simulations, that it's not your real future,
it's not your real children's future.
But it is.
And that worries me.
[King Charles III] It's rapidly going backwards.
I've said that for the last 40 years, but anyway, there we are.
Still, that's where I get a bit, you know...
I can only do what I can do, which is not very much.
Ah, anyway.
People don't seem to understand it's not just climate change
that's the problem, it's also biodiversity loss.
So, we're, we're actually destroying our means of survival,
all the time.
So, to put that back together again is possible,
but we've got-- we should've been doing it long ago.
We've got to do it as fast as we can now.
-[crowd chatter] -[whistles blowing]
[upbeat music playing]
[Gore] I am confident that
we're going to win this struggle, uh,
because I see it in the context of, uh,
a series of other morally-based, uh, struggles.
The Civil Rights Movement, the antislavery movement,
women's suffrage, the right of women to vote.
And in all of those movements,
there were periods when the advocates felt genuine despair.
But when the underbrush was cleared away
and the central issue was revealed as a choice between right and wrong,
then at a very deep level, the outcome became foreordained.
And we are very close to that point now
on climate.
♪ ♪
[music ends]
[Winslet] Back in the early 2000s, the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis
famously overlapped in a single issue that grabbed headlines:
the decimation of the world's rainforests.
[ominous music playing]
The destruction goes on at a truly terrifying pace.
Somehow, we have to find ways of putting a price on the forests
which makes them more valuable alive than dead.
[music fades]
[Winslet] In search of solutions,
the King visited several Commonwealth countries, including Guyana.
Located on the northern border of the Amazon,
Guyana is covered in a rainforest almost the size of the United Kingdom.
[animals calling]
But at the time, the country was also amongst the poorest on Earth
and heavily in debt.
[children chattering playfully]
[Juniper] For a country like Guyana,
what do you do in order to be able to provide your citizens
with homes, with education, with energy security,
taken for granted in the West.
Do you cut down your forest
or do you find a different way whereby you can keep the forest
at the same time as enabling your citizens to have a better lifestyle?
One of the big interventions that occurred in 2007
was the announcement by the government of Norway
to put millions of dollars into rainforest conservation.
Paying Guyana to be able to improve its social well-being
without having to cut down its forest.
And the person sitting between the two was King Charles.
[Fawcett] Here's a man who has thought his entire life,
"What can I do?"
went about trying to do it,
went about building coalitions for people to help him do it
and then bloody well did it.
That's a lesson for all of us.
[gentle music playing]
[Winslet] Today, thanks to the efforts of Norway and the King,
Guyana has one of the lowest deforestation rates on Earth.
The King's Foundation has been studying
why the forest is worth more alive than dead.
[Sadinsky laughing] Wow.
[Marc Palahí] Wow. Oh, my God.
This is the planet of the trees, eh, Simon?
[Sadinsky] Mm.
Absolutely stunning. Look at that.
[breathing deeply]
♪ ♪
[Palahí] This is the largest water pump on Earth,
because the rainfall
in southwest America, in southwest of the U.S.
is probably coming from the recirculation of water coming from this forest.
So, basically, everything is interconnected.
And in fact, our farming activities would not be possible
without having large forests like this one.
[Winslet] Even though the rest of the world benefits,
no one cares more about this forest than the Guyanese.
Irfaan Ali is Guyana's president.
[low conversations]
[Ali] This is a demonstration of the work
-of King Charles. -[Sadinsky] Mm.
And this is what he saw and understood the potential and the value.
[animals calling]
[birds chirping]
When we kept this forest alive, we kept biodiversity alive.
The world in the last 50 years would have lost more than 60% of its biodiversity.
We have kept ours intact.
If we lose our biodiversity,
then we lose that entire balance in our ecosystem.
[low conversations]
[Winslet] For President Ali, the forest isn't wilderness,
it's the source of life for the Guyanese people.
Welcome to Adventure 101.
[upbeat music playing]
When you talk about estate of Harmony,
it is not only about safeguarding nature,
and that is why Dumfries House model is very important.
We can shout from the mountain, "Let us safeguard nature,"
but then people still have to live.
You still have to support the economic modeling
of those communities and the country itself.
And that is what the estate of Harmony brings together.
Sustaining that nature but at the same time
finding ways in which economic empowerment,
social empowerment, entrepreneurship,
innovation, AI, all of these things are built into that estate.
This is callaloo.
Yeah, this is Guyanese.
This is... 100% Guyanese.
What did you say the peppers are called?
-Wiri wiri pepper. -Wiri wiri.
[Sadinsky] Mm. Are those superhot?
No, they're very flavorful.
Okay.
Very flavorful.
There is no aftereffect.
[children chattering happily]
[Ali] How is it? Did it burn your tongue?
[laughs] It's a bit hot.
[others laughing]
[Winslet] Across Guyana,
the president plans to build sustainable forest villages
inspired by Dumfries House.
Like we saw in Afghanistan,
these villages will have modern sanitation,
schools and health care.
But they'll also grow their own food and will have clean renewable energy.
It's a futuristic vision for a sustainable way of life.
[loud buzzing]
[Michael DeMendonca] There's a little misunderstanding
with conservation and preservation.
So, if we tell a man not to cut down or not to use the forest,
then how will you survive?
Right? So, it's not completely "don't use" but "preserve."
Keep it in a healthy shape and at the same time,
you know, get some income and your self-sustainable, um, livelihood.
[Alliah Simon] We do sustainable timber harvesting.
We only log a limited amount of trees
in a specific area, and our logging cycle
-is a 60-year cycle. -60 years.
So, once we log here, we don't go back in the next 60 years.
I feel like everybody should use the approach of sustainable use.
I feel like that's the standard of the world,
how it should be.
[gentle music playing]
Harmony with nature,
it's our lifestyle, the Indigenous peoples,
and the forest is still here because of us.
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
[Winslet] For years, the King has admired
how Indigenous people around the world are still able to live in harmony with nature.
So, it was no surprise that he chose Highgrove,
the birthplace of Harmony, for a unique gathering.
[King Charles III] It's particularly special to have so many of you
gathered here today.
As you probably know,
for many years, I have tried to indicate how special the knowledge
and wisdom of traditional people is
and how much we need to pay attention to that wisdom
in order to help restore the world back to Harmony.
[gentle music playing]
[Mere Takoko] Our approach to Harmony
is about braiding the best of Western science
with the best of, uh, Indigenous knowledge.
Traditionally, those things have been kept in isolation,
uh, from one another.
Harmony is about bringing, uh, systems from two different cultural backgrounds
together as one, looking at ways for us to transition
to a new economy that's much more kinder for people and the planet.
[Mindahi Bastida] We think about more circular economy.
An economy that is circular is an economy that respects life.
We don't see the trees like alien.
We don't see the-the birds or other species.
They are all relatives.
We are the reflection of the sacred elements.
We need to treat these elements with respect,
with responsibility and now with regeneration.
[Winslet] One of the King's ambitions is that we all use Indigenous wisdom
to reform how we do business.
-[upbeat music playing] -[distant siren wailing]
[Palahí] Indigenous people have shown for thousands of years,
how you can build an economy, a circular one,
that prospers in harmony with nature.
Instead of disposing or wasting,
you maximize the lengths of those products and materials.
Using, reusing, repairing and recycling.
[King Charles III] That partnership between the public,
private and Indigenous people
is, I think, the absolute key to our future.
[Winslet] To signify this partnership, the King authored the Terra Carta:
an initiative where hundreds of businesses and governments
have pledged to become sustainable.
[Fawcett] The King's whole life has been taking his position
and his convening ability and his platform
to make a difference.
And I think people now, after all these years, do recognize that.
-[no audible dialogue] -[music ends]
[Winslet] The King's personal journey is inspiring.
But even more hopeful is the fact that the Harmony philosophy
is now spreading all by itself,
sparking transformations around the world.
[gentle music playing]
Our favorite example lies in Rajasthan, India,
on the edge of the Thar Desert.
The land here was broken by industrial farming.
In 2013, Manvendra Singh decided to fix it
using ideas much like Harmony.
[Manvendra] I know about Harmony from my visits to Dumfries House.
It's such a simplistic idea,
but when you extrapolate that idea
to the way that we view our relationship with nature
or with other human beings,
is the only way that it can work.
This is a region of Jaipur.
It's considered a-a region where there is no water.
There were less than 30 trees on this entire 500-acre piece of land...
...and there was so much salt
that you could smell it in the air.
[wind blowing]
I really remember
I'd come here with a friend,
and he said, "What the..." [laughing]
"What have you got yourself into?"
♪ ♪
It's really difficult for anything to grow here.
A lot of it is clay and devoid of any topsoil.
But this deserted, arid, barren landscape, uh,
also holds the seeds of, of an oasis.
And, uh, it is, uh, every desert boy's dream to have an oasis.
[birds chirping]
From the very beginning,
I studied how people in the desert stored water.
This is a stepwell built in the 1600s.
These were, as you can see,
on that side, it's a well which, uh, taps water
from waterbody.
And you have steps that take you all the way to the well.
♪ ♪
[Winslet] One of the keys to Harmony
is to use the best of the past to create something new and sustainable.
[metallic creaking]
[Manvendra] We have about 17 wells that we intend to convert into stepwells.
[birds squawking]
There is something incredible about going within the Earth's womb.
[slight echo] It creates a sense of belonging.
It feels like peace...
[laughs softly]
...is that you're blessed with this big holy peepul tree.
You're right next to a water source in the middle of a desert,
in Earth's womb.
What else would you feel?
♪ ♪
[bird squawking]
[Winslet] Before he could build stepwells of his own,
Manvendra had to dig strategic ponds to collect the rainwater when it falls.
[Manvendra] Our first waterbody got filled in four days of rain.
The waterbodies are an important way of storing water,
but it is the most inefficient way of storing water.
What you should do is to increase
the soil's capacity to retain more moisture.
[uplifting music playing]
So, we planted about 270,000 trees...
...and opened this land for
all the farmers in the region to graze their cattle.
You know, with their footfall, the soil starts to get loosened up,
and with their manure, it's a natural fertilizer.
Now you can basically store
a lot more water than you see on... in the ponds, in the soil itself.
It's at least three times.
[Winslet] Tree roots pierced the Earth's hard crust,
allowing water to penetrate.
Dung and urine from the animals were mixed in by hooves and by insects.
And with a rich new topsoil,
a process began to unfold that you could call Harmony.
[Manvendra] As the trees started to become big,
there was more bird life, there was more animal life.
Then it was like, sit back and enjoy the ride.
[Winslet] Wading birds inadvertently brought fish and frog eggs
to Manvendra's ponds.
With the arrival of the monsoon, the once broken desert was thriving
with more life than anyone imagined possible.
-[thunder rumbling] -[indistinct chatter]
[screams]
Ah.
[speaks indistinctly]
[Manvendra] In the monsoons, the air feels different.
It's like the entire landscape comes together in celebration.
[upbeat music playing]
-[chirping] -[bleating]
Yes, we gave it the initial thing, but now did we bring the fish here?
No, we did not.
Did we get 180 types of birds here?
We did not.
Did we make this ecosystem resilient every day?
No, we did not do that.
We have just been taking credit.
[music fades]
It feels very humbling that you can just do one thing
and then it unfolds into this butterfly effect.
[birds chirping]
[Winslet] Restoring nature is just the beginning.
Using local materials, including these salvaged stone carvings,
Manvendra shares the King's vision of building
from the goodness of what was already there.
His oasis will soon be a sustainable community for hundreds of people.
[Manvendra] That latent potential,
that seed always existed in this place, as it exists
in many places, as it exists in many people.
[gentle music playing]
Harmony means balance.
Isn't that what the universe constantly strives to get to?
♪ ♪
[music fades]
[Winslet] If you're anything like me,
you can feel the disconnection that comes with living in our digital age.
But what Harmony has shown me
is that reconnecting with nature isn't so hard to do.
And it can begin with a simple step outside.
[King Charles III] It all boils down to the fact that we are
actually nature ourselves.
We are a part of it, not apart from it,
which is really how things have been presented for so long.
[upbeat music playing]
[Cadman] It's only relatively recently we've lost that connection.
So deep, deeply embedded
in our DNA is an-- a felt knowledge of how to be.
Being a countryman,
it would have been extraordinary if he had not discovered that.
[King Charles III] I've always loved the countryside.
I've always adored being outside all the time.
And as I got older, I took more and more interest.
[birds chirping]
I loved going out and exploring.
So, for me, it's an essential part of life, [chuckles]
is to have that connection with...
with the world outside.
♪ ♪
[Skelly] This whole premise of Harmony
comes out of the King's love and fascination
for the way the natural world operates.
He's happiest, I think, when he's in nature.
[King Charles III] There's something irresistible about a swift,
swooping with that incredible cry they make
and the speed they go at.
They never stop.
To me, the swallows, swifts and house martins are absolutely critical.
And I...
If they didn't come back each year, I'd literally fall into despair, I think.
Childhood memories are so vital.
My grandmother was a remarkable person I adored.
She had the most wonderful mischievous sense of everything, really.
But, but also her places.
Like the garden at Royal Lodge were magical.
She encouraged me to look at things, observe.
It's fascinating the life that goes on at a microscopic level,
if you know what I mean.
And just stopping and-and really looking and observing
is-is another thing that matters to me a great deal.
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[Skelly] He's a countryman.
And I think he sees a lot of the issues that face the world today
from that perspective.
He's got his feet very firmly on the ground,
and he knows what the ground is made of.
So funny, these creatures. They really do make me laugh.
[regal fanfare playing]
[music ends]
God save the King!
[others] God save the King!
[gentle music playing]
[Gore] We all face the same choice
between the hard right and the easy wrong.
I think it was a hard choice but the right choice
to try to make his life and his position in the royal family
something that really mattered.
And that's-that's character. That's character.
[Prince Charles] I just feel I can throw a rock into a pond
and-and watch the ripples, um,
create a certain amount of discussion.
Hopefully to try and see whether something better can come out of it, ultimately.
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[Richards] Not many people really understood the man and what he stood for.
This has been a man who has had a sensitive appreciation for
the planet and for humanity and has wanted to do things which heal
places he's seen as being broken.
[happy chattering]
[Prince Charles] As our planet's life-support system begins to fail
and our very survival as a species is brought into question,
remember that our children and grandchildren will ask
not what our generation said
but what it did.
[Fawcett] He has been involved with the environment and nature
for 50-plus years.
And people have tried to push him off it. They made fun of him.
And what's brilliant about the King is he's still there,
reminding people, "We have to get this done."
He is the still point in the turning world when it comes to nature.
People have thought that it's a dotty thing to do.
They always thought it was just for people with sandals and long hair.
-[laughter] -[speaks indistinctly]
[Juniper] If there's one person who inspires us to see
the power of dogged determination
and sticking to your guns for a very long time,
it's King Charles with his idea of Harmony.
[Prince Charles] It is possible in terms of-of the future
to arrive at some sort of harmony or balance between man and, and nature.
[Winslet] Of course, Harmony has never been about one man.
Harmony has always been about the relationships that we all share.
We've witnessed the power of Harmony
to heal, to inspire.
And even in difficult circumstances, Harmony brings hope.
[happy chattering]
All of us have been gifted this incredible relationship with nature.
Which means, in the end, any one of us can find Harmony.
[birds squawking]
[King Charles III] Maybe, by the time I shuffle off
this mortal coil, there might be a little bit more awareness
of the need to bring things back together again.
Anyway.
[Brown] Thank you so much, Your Majesty.
Got to get the music right.
-[laughter] -In the background.
[birds chirping]
[Brown] Thank you. Thank you.
We appreciate it. Thanks so much.
Thank you very much...
I hope you give him a stiff drink.
[laughter]
[King Charles III] Thank you, thank you.
-[woman] Thank you, sir. -See you soon, I hope, somewhere.
[birds chirping]
[upbeat music playing]
We respect you, Your Highness, because as that film showed,
uh, you believe in having a respect and reverence for nature,
and I think that's marvelous in a time
where we, we have to worry about the environment.
I went to Clarence House to meet His Royal Highness.
They said, "His Royal Highness, he's, he's in the greenhouse."
And I went there and there he was, surrounded by the delphiniums
and the begonias and the tulips, and he was talking to them.
-He was talking to them. -[audience laughing]
It's... it is not, um, a rumor. He was actually talking to them.
And I just, I felt so humbled to watch him talk.
And I-I just said, "I don't mean to interrupt,"
and one of the delphiniums said, "Please do, for God's sake.
-[laughter] -No clue what he's saying.
For years. No clue."
[upbeat music playing]
[man] Prince Charles even joked when asked to present press awards.
I rather feel that, uh, being here today
is, uh, rather like asking a pheasant
to award the prizes to the best shot.
[laughter]
[applause]
-And speaking... -[laughter]
...speaking as a pheasant,
with an "H,"
you have been wonderfully sporting shots.
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He rang me up to say that he was in a dentist chair--
when he was the Prince of Wales-- and, uh, the only thing keeping him sane
and stopping him from feeling the pain
was the fact that I was on the radio in the surgery.
And, uh, I did venture to ask him, uh, "What were you having done?"
and there was a slight pause and he said, "I was having a crown fitted."
[laughter]
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[music fades]