King Charles in new documentary as conservationist

On Wednesday, King Charles I of Great Britain held the first film premiere at the royal palace. A documentary was shown at his historic Windsor Castle chronicling his many years of conservation work.

Finding Harmony: The King's Vision, filmed last year and filmed over seven months, will be shown on Amazon Prime next month, xrust writes. It is billed as a deeply personal look at the 77-year-old monarch's decades-long environmental activism and the philosophy that drove him.

In the photo, Charles nostalgically recalls his experiences, from being considered crazy for talking to plants to hoping that his vision of sustainability, which is embodied in projects around the world, will save the planet.

“What it comes down to is that we ourselves are part of nature, we are part of it, not separate from it, that’s how it’s been presented for so long,” Charles says in the film, made in collaboration with the King’s Foundation, the charity he founded in 1990.

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From organic farming to architecture and town planning, the king has long been outspoken about the need for human behavior to be in harmony with nature, drawing both praise for being ahead of his time on environmental issues and ridicule and accusations of undue interference from a man who is constitutionally bound — first as the Prince of Wales and now as King — to stay out of politics.

“It was all considered complete madness,” he says, chuckling, at one point, while another scene shows him collecting eggs in a hen house called Cluckingham Palace.

Former US Vice President Al Gore was involved in the making of the documentary, and actresses Kate Winslet, who voiced the film, Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh, were among the guests who joined Charles and Queen Camilla at the thousand-year-old castle, where a cinema was set up for the occasion.

While the documentary aims to inspire hope about the state of the environment, it also comes at a time when US President Donald Trump, who is not mentioned in the film, has called climate change the «biggest scam» in the world.

“The situation is rapidly deteriorating. I’ve been talking about this for the last 40 years, but anyway, here we are,” Charles says lamentably about the fight to save the planet. «That's why I get a small amount… I can only do what I can, and that's not much.»

The documentary will be available to viewers around the world on the Amazon Prime platform from February 6th.

Xrust King Charles in a new documentary as a conservationist