Finding Harmony: A King's Vision (2026)

[bunniefuu]

[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 k*ll 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,

g*ng 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.

[expl*si*n]

[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 w*r.

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]

-[g*ns firing]

Afghanistan has been in and out of w*r

since 1979.

And after the 2001 t*rror1st 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 g*nf*re]

-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 g*nf*re]

[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 Palah] Wow. Oh, my God.

This is the planet of the trees,

eh, Simon?

[Sadinsky] Mm.

Absolutely stunning. Look at that.

[breathing deeply]



[Palah] 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]

[Palah] 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.



[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.



[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 g*ns

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.



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]



[music fades]