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00:00:26What is the opposite of harmony?
00:00:32We could argue it's a disconnection, like being cut off from each other and from nature.
00:00:45New technological breakthroughs keep making life better for so many, but could we be losing
00:00:52something vital along the way?
00:00:57Every day we're told the natural world is on fire.
00:01:02Where's the hope?
00:01:07Well, we've been out searching.
00:01:11Which brings us to harmony.
00:01:16People who practice harmony invite us to see the world in a new way.
00:01:22They suggest that the very things we've become disconnected from may hold the key to our
00:01:27future.
00:01:31And they claim that even if we've broken nature, once we bring her back, the land,
00:01:36people and communities can all be healed.
00:01:41If they're right, then maybe the future is full of hope.
00:01:50And the man who has spent a lifetime building harmony.
00:01:54Well, that's also a bit of a surprise.
00:02:02Well, that's what we're saying, I wasn't expecting that.
00:02:28What is harmony?
00:02:32Harmony.
00:02:32And what's it got to do with King Charles III?
00:02:36As it happens for over 50 years, the King has been experimenting with ways to bring
00:02:41nature back into every part of our lives.
00:02:46He calls it harmony, and it's been catching on.
00:03:05Today, more than ever, people are flocking to venues run by the King's Foundation to learn
00:03:11how they can create harmony for their own families and communities.
00:03:17And that's certainly what interested me.
00:03:21One of our jobs here is to bring together different people.
00:03:24So you've got, yes, you've got presidents, but you've got academics, you've got farmers,
00:03:28you've got all sorts of people.
00:03:29And that doesn't happen very often.
00:03:32So when you bring them together, that's when you get really interesting spots.
00:03:38Now, you two have to meet a fantastic friend.
00:03:41The boss has a few favourite phrases, and one of them is, seeing is believing.
00:03:45If you get people to Dumfries House and they see what's going on, they'll get it.
00:03:49And they go, right, we need this, we need to take it back, we need to do something.
00:04:01Throughout his life, the King developed a core set of beliefs about our world, which have,
00:04:06at times, got him into trouble.
00:04:13Over and over, people even dismissed him as crazy.
00:04:16But today, his ideas seem more like common sense.
00:04:22To follow this journey, we will travel with him back in time.
00:04:30As it's the King's untold personal story that shows us how Harmony can transform our future.
00:04:39Had we better crack on?
00:04:41Absolutely.
00:04:42I haven't introduced you to the technical team.
00:04:44They've now set themselves up.
00:04:45This is Adel who's doing the sound, sir.
00:04:48I think it's quite heavy.
00:04:55I look forward to seeing how it all ends up, if you know what I mean.
00:04:58It's a heck of a story.
00:05:00It would be nice to try and see if we can get through to people, but who knows.
00:05:10Her Royal Highness is the proud and happy mother of a prince.
00:05:14The salute is fired, and in the monarch's home lies the infant boy who will one day be king.
00:05:20I was born in 1948.
00:05:24By the mid-1950s, a frenzy of change was sweeping the world.
00:05:30And that created a new age of radical experimentation in every major field of human endeavour.
00:05:37It's no accident that the king discovered Harmony during a time of unprecedented change.
00:05:44Historians call it the Great Acceleration.
00:05:51When the king was born, our planet was home to two and a half billion people.
00:05:56But in mere decades, that number has tripled.
00:06:01And as the human population exploded, our ability to house and feed ourselves grew even faster.
00:06:13Suddenly, millions of us began living longer, consuming more, and travelling the world in ways our forebears couldn't dream of.
00:06:24While most people in 1960s Britain were enjoying the benefits, some noticed that all this progress came at a price.
00:06:42When I was a teenager in the 1960s, I saw so much being destroyed around us.
00:06:50All our precious, flower-rich meadows and wetlands and the hedges were ripped up and the trees cut down.
00:06:56The centres of our towns and cities were ripped out.
00:07:00You know, it was all going on at a huge pace.
00:07:04And I remember thinking, but this is going to go too far.
00:07:15At the time, public discussions about the environment were rare.
00:07:20So, when the 21-year-old prince gave one of his first public speeches, many were shocked by what he
00:07:27had to say.
00:07:30We are faced, at the moment, with the horrifying effects of pollution in all its cancerous forms.
00:07:38There is the growing menace of oil pollution at sea.
00:07:42There is chemical pollution, discharged into rivers from factories and chemical plants,
00:07:48which clogs up the rivers with toxic substances and adds to the filth in the seas.
00:07:56Well, it was quite a long time ago, and I remember being, well, profoundly, you know, concerned about all this.
00:08:10It seemed crazy to go on without thinking carefully about how we manage all this.
00:08:23By the time I started to hear the then Prince of Wales making these statements, they did, they did resonate.
00:08:34I can remember thinking, yes, this chap is concerned about things.
00:08:39Which, of course, wasn't something that you'd expect from a member of the royal family.
00:08:42You know, they didn't, they didn't, they didn't talk about these things.
00:08:54The prince may have lived a life apart, yet his views struck a common chord.
00:09:00By April 22nd, 1970, 20 million people took to the streets to celebrate the first Earth Day.
00:09:10Many say the environmental movement was born.
00:09:20There was a shift of consciousness which was going on all over the world at that time.
00:09:25And I think there was some sort of yearning that the prince had to be part of that.
00:09:31Probably never quite articulated, but I think nevertheless felt.
00:09:36So even though he had this very privileged upbringing, very separate from normal people,
00:09:42at some level he was affected by this atmosphere of change.
00:09:48Jamie Oliver once said he was a bit of a hippie, and I think that's probably true.
00:10:00Come on.
00:10:03Come along.
00:10:07Come on.
00:10:31All right, we're right.
00:10:35See, that looks good.
00:10:36That's a good haul.
00:10:37Well, the great thing is to give them something in return.
00:10:40Yes.
00:10:41At least they can peck about out here.
00:10:43They love it.
00:10:45There we are.
00:10:48In 1980, the then Prince of Wales moved into Highgrove, where he still lives today.
00:10:57What no one knew back then was that he had plans to turn his home into a test bed for
00:11:03his radical ideas about harmony.
00:11:07When I first came here, when I first came here, this was completely empty, and then half the wall had
00:11:14gone.
00:11:15I then thought of a plan which was based on the St. Andrew's cross and the St. Georgie's cross.
00:11:26I wanted to find ways of ensuring that we could rescue all these threatened heritage varieties of everything.
00:11:36Yeah.
00:11:37You had all the vegetables, potatoes, cauliflower, peas, and a lot of them were being just abandoned.
00:11:43So I did my utmost to have as many rare breeds here as possible to demonstrate how valuable they are.
00:11:50Because, of course, concentrating on just a few varieties makes us unbelievably gone wrong, as we're finding to disease and
00:11:57everything else.
00:12:00And half the battle, I think, is to find the right varieties.
00:12:04If you want to have decent baked potatoes, which I love, you've got to get the crispy skins.
00:12:10So what do you do?
00:12:10So the Red Duke of York's are very good.
00:12:13We've discovered, again, through trial and error.
00:12:18The king's efforts to protect the diversity of fruits and vegetables was a part of his overall mission to bring
00:12:25nature back into farming and gardening.
00:12:34In the first half of the 20th century, old farming systems couldn't keep up with a sudden increase in human
00:12:41population.
00:12:46Mass famines claimed tens of millions of lives all over the world.
00:12:52But scientists came to the rescue in what has been hailed as the Green Revolution.
00:13:00They invented a suite of industrial farming techniques that proved wildly successful.
00:13:08In a short time, we grew more food than we needed and saved millions of lives in the process.
00:13:16The scientists won Nobel Prizes and the human population could grow unhindered.
00:13:26But there was still a problem.
00:13:34The Green Revolution, where we had this massive emphasis on producing more and more food,
00:13:40it harnessed several strands of new activity.
00:13:43One was a production of toxic pesticides to wipe out most living things in the landscape except the crop.
00:13:50There was the production of vast quantities of artificial fertiliser produced with fossil fuels and nitrogen from the atmosphere,
00:13:59harnessed for the explicit goal of fostering maximum growth.
00:14:14During the Green Revolution, farmers enlarged their fields and planted monocultures.
00:14:20They then enriched the soil with chemical fertilisers that supercharged plant growth.
00:14:27But this caused everything to grow, not just the crops.
00:14:32So, they had to add chemical herbicides and pesticides to kill everything except the crop.
00:14:41To this day, around the world, soil that once thrived in a harmonious web of life has been collateral damage.
00:14:52The Green Revolution was fantastic.
00:14:55Absolutely, we need more food. We still do.
00:14:58But not at the expense of nature.
00:15:03Chemical fertilisers and then pesticides had become embedded in agricultural practice and policy for a whole generation.
00:15:12And then along comes the Prince of Wales and says, well, actually, that's not right.
00:15:16No matter how cost-effective intensive food production appears to be, our current approach will lead to a dead end.
00:15:26We must put nature back at the heart of the equation.
00:15:32The then Prince of Wales started this experiment in a corner of Home Farm at Highgrove.
00:15:39For Prince Charles, Highgrove House in Gloucestershire is where the Prince has begun to put into practice his ideas about
00:15:46man's place in the natural world.
00:15:49The gardens, woods, parkland and farms are all run within a regime that works with nature, rather than with the
00:15:56aid of chemical fertilisers, pesticides or herbicides.
00:16:01There's a very nice reminder of my dogs, I must say.
00:16:06But I felt the time had come to demonstrate how you could restore soil fertility, because by then the soil
00:16:14had lost all its life.
00:16:18All this sort of thing is considered completely bonkers, to say the least.
00:16:27News headlines begin to appear around the Prince of Wales having purchased an organic farm in Gloucestershire.
00:16:34And in those days, organic was not really very understood.
00:16:39He's going organic.
00:16:41What do you mean organic?
00:16:42You mean with no chemicals, just lots and lots of manure?
00:16:46Yep, the natural approach.
00:16:48They'll be living like peasants.
00:16:50They'll be working like dogs.
00:16:55There were many people who surrounded him and advised him that he should be careful in what he got involved
00:17:01with.
00:17:04Organic farming was something which was not mainstream and something which was a perilous sphere to engage with.
00:17:13While explaining his passion for organic gardening to the press, Prince Charles made a comment that's haunted him ever since.
00:17:22I love coming in here, and I potter about the set and read, or I just come and talk to
00:17:27the plants, really.
00:17:28Very important to talk to them.
00:17:30They respond, don't they?
00:17:32As the press always does, they pick up on the soundbite that they can then ridicule about talking to plants.
00:17:41And that starts to become the narrative.
00:17:48It was used as a way of diminishing the organic argument and presenting him as somehow slightly odd and slightly
00:17:57dotty.
00:18:00Those criticisms really upset him.
00:18:03He got treated very unfairly and seen very unfairly.
00:18:07And those of us that knew him better were quite upset by that.
00:18:10It was difficult to know how to respond, but I really fought for him.
00:18:18Despite the opposition, Prince Charles' farm began selling organic food.
00:18:23Dutchie Originals became a national brand, and to date, their sales have raised over £50 million for charity.
00:18:36The success of the Prince's first Harmony experiment has inspired nature-based farming practices around the world.
00:18:46What we developed, and the king has championed for 40 years, to move to its next phase, where the principles
00:18:53and the practices of organic farming can be taken to scale.
00:18:58And one of them is regenerative agriculture.
00:19:04Regenerating topsoil and bringing nature back onto farms could mean we eat better.
00:19:12It also means we might store more carbon in the soil and slow climate change.
00:19:20That is a big shift, which is just taking place now, actually.
00:19:24And interestingly, after all these years, the Harmony Project's time has come, and really has.
00:19:44After Highgrove, Prince Charles was ready to scale up from farming.
00:19:49He wanted to find out if Harmony could benefit an entire community.
00:19:55So, in the 2000s, he began looking around the United Kingdom in areas that had fallen on hard times.
00:20:06It was coal mining that made the Kumnak area, and it was coal mining that unmade it.
00:20:11Created an economy over-dependent on a single industry, and as one pit closure followed another throughout the 80s,
00:20:17it left an area ill-equipped to re-adjust to the small business enterprise culture.
00:20:24In the 1980s, many heavy industries and manufacturing left the UK for foreign shores.
00:20:32The Kumnak area in Scotland was particularly hard hit.
00:20:38And even country estates like Dumfries House were falling apart.
00:20:43When I discovered that this place was due to be sold and everything in it,
00:20:48eventually it took a somewhat, you know, risky decision to raise the money in a loan.
00:20:58This exercise is a huge amount of money, and if this goes wrong, we've got problems.
00:21:08The then-prince gambled his reputation on a dream larger and more complex than Highgrove.
00:21:19With Dumfries House, his plan was not only to heal the land,
00:21:23but bring Harmony to the surrounding community as well.
00:21:27We'll get there in the end.
00:21:31It's very familiar.
00:21:34I felt it was critical to try and demonstrate how you could regenerate an entire area,
00:21:40how we could help raise aspirations and create new hope by bringing people together
00:21:46in a thoroughly integrated, collaborative way.
00:21:52Sustainability, the whole, all of that agenda is critical here because in order to make,
00:21:57I want to say, this area is a great example of how you can create new
00:22:02businesses and jobs in the green economy.
00:22:08His Majesty saved this property for the community,
00:22:11and we started really very simply some of the principles he'd had at Highgrove.
00:22:15So let's put nature at the centre so he opens up the ground.
00:22:20Then we needed to restore the house. We couldn't find the stonemasons, the carpenters to do it,
00:22:25so we went, oh right, we better start training them.
00:22:29Then we needed people to work in the house, and there weren't the hospitality programmes that we
00:22:34wanted that were done in a sustainable way, so we started teaching those courses.
00:22:39So each element has really built based on what the community needs.
00:22:49It was easy to see how the Dumfries House estate had improved, but what was the impact on people?
00:22:58The story of Stuart Banks stood out. When Stuart's father was injured, he struggled to find work.
00:23:07And when Stuart was only 12, his father took his own life.
00:23:13You can see parallels in my personal story to the area. The kind of loss of the coal mines and
00:23:18the
00:23:18loss of industry in the area. There was a big shock in the system. It's kind of hard to get
00:23:26over.
00:23:27And especially when you're so young, you kind of lose the motivation to do anything.
00:23:32And that kind of led me into dropping out of school early.
00:23:38By the time I was like 14, 15, I was proper housebound. I was in that kind of reclosed hole,
00:23:46that empty hole.
00:23:53I think when you're in that position, you think you can't be healed.
00:24:02It took me a long time to kind of build back up and it was not an overnight thing.
00:24:09I did start going to the Job Centre and asking for things.
00:24:14The Job Centre said that there was a five-week hospitality course at Dumfries House.
00:24:23I was there a couple of weeks and I started to get the bug.
00:24:27I knew what they were doing here was something a little bit special.
00:24:32I got inspired. My motivation increased and increased and increased.
00:24:38And by the end of the course, they offered me a job.
00:24:45It was like the first time someone in my life, outside of my close family,
00:24:51had really put their arm on my shoulder and said, look, you can do it.
00:24:59It's not just Stuart. All the people we met at Dumfries House belong to a larger ecosystem.
00:25:08The farm, the restaurant and the house, even the woodworkers and textile designers,
00:25:14everyone is striving to live sustainably from the land.
00:25:19Beautiful. Thank you very much. We'll make good use of them.
00:25:21And most of the skills they practice and teach are connected to the heritage of this region of Scotland.
00:25:29Dumfries House has really become a driver for the economy here.
00:25:32You know, we are one of the biggest employers in the area. We train 10,000 people here a year.
00:25:38And you go to the street as well.
00:25:40But there's a really better and better at it. I can't get over it.
00:25:43And can you... Me either.
00:25:46We've got students who will tell you they come from three generations of families that had never been employed.
00:25:54But there's a future here.
00:26:02When he saves Dumfries House, he doesn't save it as an object just to be looked at.
00:26:08He saves it to bring healing to the local community, to bring vitality, a new vitality.
00:26:15And of course, this links us to harmony. Because for a community to flourish, you need harmonious order and balance.
00:26:28Whether it's in nature, whether it's in people, I think he is focused on not leaving something broken and trying
00:26:41to fix what he can.
00:26:45And I think it is definitely rubbed off, you know.
00:26:54To anyone who's new here, welcome.
00:26:56We hope you have a lovely time with us.
00:26:59The tea dance is something that we run regularly throughout the year.
00:27:03So if this is your first time, we do hope to see you back.
00:27:18The tea dance came from such a simple insight.
00:27:25You go up to the Health and Wellbeing Centre and you say, okay, what should we be doing next?
00:27:29And they tell you how lonely a lot of old people are.
00:27:33They can go days without talking to people.
00:27:39Common sense, it's going to have an impact on your mental health.
00:27:41But also the impact it has on your physical health as well.
00:27:46So what a simple idea.
00:27:54This place changed my life.
00:27:56And it's great seeing people who may have struggled in the past coming out and being
00:28:00confident and enthusiastic and they get right into it.
00:28:10Lovely to see you again.
00:28:11You ready for the dance today?
00:28:12Yes, of course I will, Stuart.
00:28:14Make sure it's a nice, slow one.
00:28:17A slow one?
00:28:18You can hold my hand as well.
00:28:20If you like.
00:28:31Once the community here started to see tangible benefits from harmony, word began to spread.
00:28:42And as we discovered, it's this philosophy of harmony that can be applied, even when you're
00:28:48not on a beautiful country estate.
00:28:54Here at HMP Bristol, we are a Cat B, very high security prison.
00:29:01Prisoners are coming in for all sorts of reasons, from drugs, to abuse, to mental issues, gang culture.
00:29:12We are seeing these individuals coming here because society is broken.
00:29:17The family is broken.
00:29:18So of course you're going to get broken individuals.
00:29:23Okay guys, if you just come around here.
00:29:27Welcome to HMP Bristol's beekeeping academy.
00:29:30All the bees that you're seeing at the moment are the foraging bees.
00:29:34And they're out there collecting the pollen and the nectar.
00:29:37All these bees work in harmony.
00:29:40Okay, hence the harmony project here.
00:29:43Look at that.
00:29:44There is honey inside there.
00:29:46Oh s**t.
00:29:48Don't go one more hand in my pocket.
00:29:50Give you a steam.
00:29:50No, but it's about to, oh s**t.
00:29:5499.99% of prisons are here because they have no understanding of a relationship.
00:30:01Husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, family breakdown.
00:30:05The natural world will teach them about relationships, how to think as an ecosystem.
00:30:16When you see them all working as one, yeah, it's quite a fascinating thing.
00:30:24I mean, I feel quite relaxed even though they could attack you at any time.
00:30:27They don't.
00:30:27They just go along with their own daily thing.
00:30:39The whole life of a hive is a system, it's a city within a city.
00:30:43And they make that connection.
00:30:45You're not just an individual but you live within a community.
00:30:49Then we make that link with wider society and we keep emphasising the umbrella of every step is harmony.
00:31:06The core belief of the Harmony project is that nature has the power to both teach and heal.
00:31:15That's one reason the gardens at Dumfries House are free and open to the public.
00:31:22What a lovely way to spend the evening.
00:31:29Beautiful.
00:31:37I'm 91.
00:31:39Sometimes it's new to your allah that you appreciate these things because we're too busy working.
00:31:50I wasn't tired of tired and started going out and about and going to different places and realising what nature
00:31:57was like.
00:32:01So I just love it.
00:32:04Hear the birds.
00:32:11It's absolutely relaxed.
00:32:14I can forget my pain for a wee while.
00:32:19This takes your mind away.
00:32:22Stop you thinking about yourself.
00:32:37When we're in nature, nature passes into our bodies.
00:32:45When you breathe in a smell, the scent that you're smelling is a volatile organic compound.
00:32:51It hits air from the plant, it turns into a gas and that's why you get a lovely smell.
00:32:56Think about lavender or pine or cedar, all of these beautiful smells.
00:33:02And what they've shown is when people walk, for example, in a pine forest, pine molecules have passed into the
00:33:09blood.
00:33:11Some of these scents interact with the same biochemical pathways as if it's a prescription drug.
00:33:18And these are automatic changes that happen in our body, whether or not we think, I'm in nature, I'm relaxed
00:33:24or not.
00:33:42The beach isn't planted right at the beginning.
00:33:45But I can't believe how much they've grown.
00:33:48Not only is it going in like this, as I'd never lived to see.
00:33:52The fact that I have is, you know, praise be to God, frankly.
00:33:59Hence I built that little sanctuary.
00:34:04I built it to mark the millennium.
00:34:09But it's all built of earth and straw from here.
00:34:15Is this where you find your harmony stuff?
00:34:17A little bit.
00:34:18I hope.
00:34:20Or ask for more of it, I hope.
00:34:23For everybody else.
00:34:25So I wish I had this quote from the prayer book.
00:34:27Lighten our darkness, we beseech the old rule.
00:34:32That's the other point of harmony.
00:34:34How do you link the two together?
00:34:36Because we are a microcosm of the macrocosm.
00:34:41There are these universal principles which seem to apply.
00:34:45All our bodies and everything are constructed around these proportionate systems,
00:34:50as are all the rest of nature.
00:35:06It's a relationship that he feels in his lifetime has been steadily eroding.
00:35:14We did become so disconnected from the world that we inhabit.
00:35:19And once you become disconnected, you don't think it's your responsibility.
00:35:26The scientific revolution took us into a view of the world being a mechanism,
00:35:31rather than an integrated sacred whole.
00:35:35And then into our modern world, where we sit behind computer screens and we're consumers
00:35:40who've now lost sight of how the planet's life support systems work.
00:35:46In the 1980s, Prince Charles once again emerged as an early voice questioning the modern way of doing things.
00:35:54Only this time, his focus was on the way we build our cities and towns.
00:36:01Too many of our modern buildings are huge, blank and impersonal.
00:36:07We have created somewhat God-forsaken cities from which nature, or indeed the spiritual side of life,
00:36:15has almost been erased.
00:36:16I remember the then Prince of Wales talked about this deep connection between the built and the natural world.
00:36:27And we severed it.
00:36:32Searching for a better way to build towns and cities,
00:36:35Prince Charles started a school for designers and architects,
00:36:39whose work focused on reviving our connection with nature.
00:36:46We're calling this a chiral pattern, so it has mirror symmetry.
00:36:52The then Prince of Wales, I think, was interested in us,
00:36:56because we were investigating, looking at nature, the order of nature,
00:37:02that sense of unity and truth that holds the world and our existence together.
00:37:06And I think this is something that the Prince of Wales really wanted to form
00:37:11as the core of his thinking.
00:37:17We don't teach geometry for the sake of teaching geometry.
00:37:21This is not about cosmetic patterns.
00:37:25This is about how we understand that these things are cosmic
00:37:29and that how they relate to the cosmos that we live in.
00:37:34It's about understanding this constantly creative order around us.
00:37:44Scholars call it sacred geometry or the grammar of harmony.
00:37:52And they've been mapping the many patterns that recur across space and time.
00:38:01From microscopic organisms to the human body.
00:38:07Up to the eight-year-long shapes made by Venus in the night sky.
00:38:13It seems that everything in our world is united by natural mathematics.
00:38:19And whether we are aware of it or not, these ever unfolding shapes
00:38:23have a profound effect on our emotions and our well-being.
00:38:29In a word, they inspire awe.
00:38:43Everything is connected. Nothing is separate.
00:38:48So it's very empowering to an individual person who's trying to make sense of the world
00:38:52in which I find myself, to know that within my own experience,
00:38:56even within my own body, are the laws and the principles which find expression
00:39:02in everything in the world we find ourselves.
00:39:05We are nature. We are a part of nature, not a part from nature.
00:39:16Archaeologists discovered how, from the beginning,
00:39:18the order of nature inspired human creativity.
00:39:24Back then, nature dominated our lives.
00:39:28The seasons and cycles set the tempo.
00:39:34And as our civilisations grew, we used the grammar of harmony
00:39:39in our most sacred monuments and buildings.
00:39:46Even as more of us moved into towns and cities,
00:39:49we brought the order of nature with us, creating spaces inspired by wild beauty.
00:39:59However, as our technology became ever more impressive,
00:40:03we turned our backs on the natural world.
00:40:11The order of nature became overshadowed by the order of mankind.
00:40:18We've seen the industrialisation of so many different parts of our lives.
00:40:23That industrialisation, whether it's large-scale tower blocks
00:40:26that treat human beings as battery hens,
00:40:29or chickens in battery hen industrial farming,
00:40:32it denies something about our spirit,
00:40:34and it denies something of our harmony in nature,
00:40:38which His Majesty has long fought against.
00:40:45Today, Britain faces its worst housing crisis since wartime.
00:40:49Thousands of flats and homes are desired by no-one,
00:40:52least of all by the people who live in them.
00:40:55There must be reasons why these architects build these flats in this design,
00:41:00in this hard barrack-looking way,
00:41:04because I'm sure they couldn't possibly like the outlook of them themselves.
00:41:10These post-war tower blocks were poorly constructed buildings,
00:41:15which tended to be social housing,
00:41:17places where people's aspirations and abilities to get on in life
00:41:22were restricted by the built form.
00:41:23So you therefore created societal problems.
00:41:35Inspired by ideas emerging from his school of architecture,
00:41:38Prince Charles began to challenge the way Britain was developing its towns and cities.
00:41:47The city centre became a monstrous concrete maze.
00:41:51Cars were placed above people,
00:41:54and people were placed one above the other on concrete shelves.
00:41:59When we went through architecture school,
00:42:01we were not allowed to question certain things.
00:42:03You can't question these icons of architecture.
00:42:08But this lack of questioning of what they're doing,
00:42:10and the agenda with which they're producing buildings,
00:42:13or interpreting our cultural heritage,
00:42:16had to be questioned, and he did question that.
00:42:19Look at the bullring.
00:42:21It has no charm, no character.
00:42:23It's a planned accident.
00:42:26It's the central library.
00:42:28But how could you tell?
00:42:30It looks like a place where books are incinerated, not kept.
00:42:35That is the redolence of a word processor.
00:42:39I'm trying very hard, I must say, to persuade myself to appreciate that.
00:42:45But I can't.
00:42:46I can't.
00:42:51The big story, of course, was when he stood up and criticized this new design for the extension
00:42:56to the National Gallery.
00:42:58What is proposed seems to me like a monstrous carmantle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.
00:43:06That was the big moment when his concerns about architecture went round the world.
00:43:13He upset a lot of people in authority, paradoxically.
00:43:16And when the orthodoxy was challenged, that's when people's backs got up.
00:43:21Nostalgic and certainly, I believe, very out of time with current architectural thought.
00:43:26And let's see why, in the 21st century, we should be building fairyland.
00:43:31Because everybody shoots their mouth off, it doesn't mean they talk sense.
00:43:36The debate around architecture and urban planning became railroaded into a style war.
00:43:44There was a characterization that His Majesty wanted to live in some idyllic Jane Austen world.
00:43:50But His Majesty was speaking for a lot of us who just felt like we don't necessarily agree in the
00:43:55way that we're developing and building our cities, our towns, that we want to look at things differently.
00:44:05The Prince of Wales, as was, knew that there is another way of building,
00:44:09another way of thinking about urban design, that has a better chance of
00:44:14cohering communities rather than ignoring what a community needs.
00:44:18Plans for a new town on land belonging to the Prince of Wales have been unveiled today.
00:44:24The development, to be called Poundbury, will be built just outside Dorchester,
00:44:28on farmland owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. It's the Prince's first opportunity to put his
00:44:33ideas on architecture into practice on such a large scale.
00:44:40In designing Poundbury, the Prince set about trying to solve problems that he felt were plaguing modern cities.
00:44:49For example, how to narrow the growing gap between the rich and the poor.
00:44:57In Poundbury, affordable housing is included with the more general housing, but it's not defined.
00:45:05So you're mixing the community up with much greater sensitivity.
00:45:12His Majesty cares about the whole of society, and if you look at society as an organism,
00:45:17the whole of that society needs to be healthy and well.
00:45:23Crucially, Poundbury was designed around nature,
00:45:25so every resident lives a short walk away from open green space.
00:45:32The scientists did a 10-year study, and they looked at about 3 million people,
00:45:37and looked at how close they lived to urban green space.
00:45:41And they showed that every 350 metres you were further away from green space,
00:45:46the worse off you were in terms of your mental health over those 10 years.
00:45:50Green space and access to it in cities is so critical.
00:46:01I've tried to demonstrate how harmony in practice could be made to work,
00:46:06rather than just talk about all these things.
00:46:15Poundbury, like Dumfrey's house, is founded upon the philosophy of harmony,
00:46:19and both places exist in a relatively wealthy and stable United Kingdom.
00:46:25But what if you live in a part of the world that hasn't been so fortunate?
00:46:33Afghanistan has been in and out of war since 1979.
00:46:39And after the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York,
00:46:42America and her allies took control of the country from the Taliban.
00:46:52Five years later, Prince Charles approached a newly elected President Karzai,
00:46:56with the idea of a harmony project in the heart of Kabul.
00:47:04The charity they founded is still going, and we accompanied its president, Shoshana Stewart, to her headquarters.
00:47:13I love this courtyard. I remember when it was completely destroyed.
00:47:17And to walk in here and see all the flowers, it's just a total joy.
00:47:25If you go back to the early 2000s, in many ways, Afghanistan was the center of the world at that
00:47:31time,
00:47:32because there was a huge international intervention.
00:47:36And meanwhile, there's an insurgency going on.
00:47:42There were suicide attacks in Kabul multiple times a week.
00:47:50The old city of Kabul was neglected and crumbling.
00:47:56Every building had some combination of one to four walls left.
00:48:06The first thing to do was just deal with the piles of rubble.
00:48:12So we basically just employed every eligible person around with a wheelbarrow and shovel.
00:48:17We realized very quickly there was no water supply, sanitation, electricity.
00:48:23Those houses needed running water, and they needed to be electrified.
00:48:29They needed health care, which ended up in us creating the clinic.
00:48:35What began with buildings and a school of traditional art became all the stuff that you need in a living
00:48:43community.
00:48:58In 2010, Prince Charles made a visit to see for himself the progress the charity had made.
00:49:07Every interaction that I've had with His Majesty about this project has been a genuine love of that place and
00:49:15of wanting to hear about the people who made these things.
00:49:19He'll pick out little details because he has a love of these traditions and of the sacred geometry behind them.
00:49:28Just like at Dumfries House, the driving force here has been the revival of skills that form the core of
00:49:35Afghanistan's cultural heritage.
00:49:45When we had finished that, we actually cut the ribbon on it.
00:49:48So we had a huge party with all of our staff and all the government.
00:49:57And it was a real moment.
00:50:02The neighborhood was just so beautiful.
00:50:09His Majesty has always talked about these livable cities where you have all the bits that make up community life
00:50:16right near you.
00:50:17People living, working, worshipping, getting their health care, getting their education all within one community.
00:50:37For the international alliance, keeping the peace in Afghanistan proved elusive.
00:50:45And in 2021, the last remaining foreign troops pulled out.
00:50:52The Taliban is now in control of Afghanistan.
00:50:56Western countries are scrambling to get their people out.
00:51:00There's huge uncertainty as well for the aid agencies upon whom so many Afghans rely.
00:51:18It has been very important that we stayed.
00:51:22I'm here to be in this place and work with the people of this place and just deal with the
00:51:29messy reality that is before you.
00:51:33You can have an unbelievable impact if you engage, if you stay.
00:51:46Because of their contributions to health care and Afghan heritage, the charity has been allowed to continue working.
00:51:55And this means that tens of thousands of Afghan women still have jobs and access to health care.
00:52:08The world is becoming increasingly more grey and less clear.
00:52:13More places are in conflict.
00:52:16How do we deal with it?
00:52:23What resonates about harmony is that you are starting from what is beautiful and then you are building back again.
00:52:32But that thing that you build is fundamentally about the goodness that is there.
00:52:39And I think it works unbelievably well the more difficult things get.
00:52:51I mean it's extraordinary when I first came 45 years ago.
00:52:54What there used to be and what there isn't now.
00:52:58I mean I used to hear cuckoos but you never hear a single cuckoo now.
00:53:04And there used to be grasshoppers and you know the place used to hum and that wonderful sound.
00:53:12You don't get much of that even though I've done my utmost to you know make sure.
00:53:21Are you worried about the state of the world?
00:53:23Of course.
00:53:25That has been my main motivation for a long long time and you can see what's happening.
00:53:32But I mean the underlying principles behind what I call harmony I think we need to follow if we're going
00:53:39to
00:53:40somehow ensure that this poor old planet can support so many as unlikely as anywhere else.
00:53:52Back in the 1980s environmental threats took a dark turn.
00:54:00In our oceans unprecedented underwater heat waves bleached coral reefs.
00:54:09Then a hole appeared in the layer of ozone protecting earth from solar radiation.
00:54:17This was a new magnitude of danger threatening all life on earth.
00:54:23And scientists were discovering we were the cause.
00:54:28Again Prince Charles was among the first public figures to sound the alarm.
00:54:34The ozone layer, marine pollution, acid rain, global warming.
00:54:39These rather fateful phrases have gradually become part of our daily lives.
00:54:47This was the first time that I became aware that if we carry on pumping tons of CO2 into the
00:54:53atmosphere,
00:54:54we are going to create this duvet cover that hovers over the whole of the world and keeps all the
00:54:59heat in.
00:55:01In his documentary Earth in Balance, the prince interviewed another environmentalist also sounding the alarm.
00:55:11The central philosophical error that we need to address and correct is the assertion for so long that we as
00:55:20human beings are separate from the Earth.
00:55:23He and I immediately found so much in common and we, I won't say plotted because you don't want to
00:55:31use that word with royalty, but we looked ahead together at how humanity might rise to this challenge.
00:55:44In 1991, the prince focused his efforts on the first ever gathering of nations to address global environmental destruction.
00:55:55In two days time, the formal business of the Earth summit will begin in Rio.
00:56:00About 80 or so world leaders are expected to gather there to discuss a blueprint for environmental protection.
00:56:09In the run-up to the summit, the Prince of Wales hosted a gathering of leaders, including the president of
00:56:16Brazil at the time,
00:56:17on board the Royal Yacht Britannia, in order to lean in to the massive challenges that would be on the
00:56:23table.
00:56:25bringing people and places together all the time, he's very good at this, he gathers, he gathers.
00:56:35He is what I would call the world's greatest convener.
00:56:39I don't think there's anybody who can convene people the way he can.
00:56:45That's what can really make a difference, I think, is just facilitating.
00:56:52Which is what I've tried to do endlessly, in order to see that we can get a better result.
00:57:00Brazil's president was the first of a dozen leaders today to sign the climate treaty.
00:57:05It's aimed at slowing down the effects of global warming and was drafted only after long and bitter debate.
00:57:12No sooner had the ink dried today than the critics let fly.
00:57:16This convention does not bind a single industrialised country,
00:57:20even to freeze its carbon dioxide emissions at present-day levels.
00:57:27Not every goal was achieved, but because of Rio, we now have the Conference of Parties, or COP,
00:57:34meetings that have been held internationally every year since 1995.
00:57:42The process used to bring nations together to discuss our joint response to climate change
00:57:49is an important one. That is why I am committing the United States of America
00:57:53to develop an effective and science-based response to the issue of global warming.
00:58:01The Prince of Wales emerged as a key figure, making regular keynote speeches, despite cries from
00:58:08some that he should take a back seat.
00:58:14I just felt that this was the approach that I was going to stick to because I'd said
00:58:21that I wasn't going to be diverted, I'm afraid.
00:58:24The crisis of climate change is far too urgent and discussion simply isn't enough.
00:58:32It just cannot be business as usual.
00:58:36The climate crisis is the mirror in which we see reflected the combined ecological impact of our industrialised age.
00:58:46We cannot be anything less than courageous and revolutionary in our approach to tackling climate change.
00:58:55Like a lot of people, I think it's fair to say he gets very frustrated that so little has happened,
00:59:00despite all of this talking that's gone on.
00:59:02Now, I have dedicated much of my life to the restoration of harmony between humanity, nature and the environment.
00:59:12Quite frankly, it has been a bit of an uphill struggle.
00:59:17We're very clear from the climate science perspective about the scale of emissions and the rate of emissions reductions
00:59:26that are required if we are to limit the worst impacts of climate change.
00:59:31And the world currently is simply not on that trajectory.
00:59:43It's very easy when you're undertaking climate modelling using computer simulations that it's not your real future.
00:59:52It's not your real children's future.
00:59:57It's not your real future, but it is, and that's what worries me.
01:00:06It's rapidly going backwards.
01:00:09I've said that for the last 40 years, but there we are still.
01:00:14That's where I get a bit, you know, anyway, I can only do what I can do, which is not
01:00:19very much, uh, anyway.
01:00:24People don't seem to want to say it's not just climate change is the problem, it's also biodiversity loss.
01:00:29So we're, we're actually destroying our means of survival all the time.
01:00:35So to put that back together again is possible, but we've got, we should have been doing it long ago.
01:00:41We've got to do it as fast as we can now.
01:00:50I am confident that we're going to win this struggle, uh, because I see it in the context of,
01:00:57uh, a series of other morally based, uh, struggles.
01:01:03The civil rights movement, the anti-slavery movement, women's suffrage, the right of women to vote.
01:01:11And in all of those movements, there were periods when the advocates felt genuine despair.
01:01:18But when the underbrush was cleared away and the central issue was revealed as a choice between right
01:01:24and wrong, then at a very deep level, the outcome became foreordained. And we are very close to that point
01:01:31now on climate.
01:01:39Back in the early 2000s, the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis famously overlapped in a
01:01:46single issue that grabbed headlines, the decimation of the world's rainforests.
01:01:53The destruction goes on at a truly terrifying pace.
01:01:58Somehow we have to find ways of putting a price on the forests, which makes them more valuable alive than
01:02:05dead.
01:02:09In search of solutions, the king visited several Commonwealth countries, including Guyana.
01:02:19Located on the northern border of the Amazon,
01:02:22Guyana is covered in a rainforest almost the size of the United Kingdom.
01:02:30But at the time, the country was also amongst the poorest on earth and heavily in debt.
01:02:37For a country like Guyana, what do you do in order to be able to provide your citizens with homes,
01:02:44with education, with energy security taken for granted in the West?
01:02:48Do you cut down your forest? Or do you find a different way whereby you can keep the forest
01:02:54at the same time as enabling your citizens to have a better lifestyle?
01:03:02One of the big interventions that occurred in 2007 was the announcement by the government of Norway
01:03:09to put millions of dollars into rainforest conservation.
01:03:14Paying Guyana to be able to improve its social well-being without having to cut down its forest.
01:03:22And the person sitting between the two was King Charles.
01:03:27Here's a man who has thought his entire life,
01:03:30what can I do, went about trying to do it, went about building coalitions for people to help him do
01:03:36it,
01:03:37and then bloody well did it. That's a lesson for all of us.
01:03:43Today, thanks to the efforts of Norway and the King,
01:03:48Guyana has one of the lowest deforestation rates on earth.
01:03:54The King's Foundation has been studying why the forest is worth more alive than dead.
01:04:05The King's Foundation has been studying why the forest is worth more alive than dead.
01:04:06Wow, oh my god. This is the planet of the trees, huh Simon?
01:04:11Absolutely stunning, look at that.
01:04:26This is the largest water pump on earth.
01:04:29Because the rainfall in southwest America, in southwest of the US,
01:04:35it's probably coming from the recirculation of water coming from this forest.
01:04:38So basically, everything is interconnected.
01:04:43And in fact, our farming activities would not be possible without having large forests like this one.
01:04:53Even though the rest of the world benefits, no one cares more about this forest than the Guyanese.
01:05:01Irfan Ali is Guyana's president.
01:05:06This is a demonstration of the work of King Charles.
01:05:11And this is what he saw and understood the potential and the value.
01:05:21When we kept this forest alive, we kept biodiversity alive.
01:05:29The world in the last 50 years would have lost more than 60% of its biodiversity.
01:05:35We have kept ours intact.
01:05:39If we lose our biodiversity, then we lose that entire balance in our ecosystem.
01:05:48For President Ali, the forest isn't wilderness.
01:05:51It's the source of life for the Guyanese people.
01:05:55Welcome to Adventure 101.
01:06:01When you talk about estate of harmony, it is not only about safeguarding nature.
01:06:07And that is why Dumfrey's house model is very important.
01:06:10We can shout from the mountain, let us safeguard nature, but then people still have to live.
01:06:16You still have to support the economic modeling of those communities and the country itself.
01:06:22And that is what the estate of harmony brings together.
01:06:25You still have to support the nature of the world.
01:06:28Sustaining that nature, but at the same time, finding ways in which economic empowerment, social empowerment,
01:06:36entrepreneurship, innovation, AI, all of these things are built into that estate.
01:06:46This is Kalu.
01:06:48Yeah, this is Guyanese.
01:06:50This is 100% Guyanese.
01:06:54Would you say the peppers are cold?
01:06:55Wiri Wiri pepper.
01:06:57Are those super hot?
01:06:59No, they're very flavorful.
01:07:01Okay.
01:07:02Very flavorful.
01:07:03There is no after effect.
01:07:07How is it?
01:07:07Is it born in your tongue?
01:07:08It's a bit hot.
01:07:14Across Guyana, the President plans to build sustainable forest villages inspired by Dumfrey's house.
01:07:22Like we saw in Afghanistan, these villages will have modern sanitation, schools and healthcare.
01:07:29But they'll also grow their own food and will have clean, renewable energy.
01:07:34It's a futuristic vision for a sustainable way of life.
01:07:48There's a little misunderstanding with conservation and preservation.
01:07:52So if you tell them not to cut down or not to use your forest, then how will you survive?
01:07:57Right.
01:07:58So it's not completely don't use or preserve.
01:08:01Keep it in healthy shape.
01:08:02And at the same time, you know, get some income and your self-sustainable livelihood.
01:08:09We do sustainable timber harvesting.
01:08:13We only log a limited amount of trees in a specific area.
01:08:18And our log-in cycle is a 60-year cycle.
01:08:21So once we log here, we don't go back in the next 60 years.
01:08:30I feel like everybody should use the approach of sustainable use.
01:08:34I feel like that's the standard of the world, how it should be.
01:08:40Harmony with nature, it's our lifestyle, the indigenous peoples.
01:08:44And the forest is still here because of us.
01:08:56For years, the king has admired how indigenous people around the world
01:09:01are still able to live in harmony with nature.
01:09:05So it was no surprise that he chose Highgrove, the birthplace of harmony, for a unique gathering.
01:09:13It's particularly special to have so many of you gathered here today.
01:09:17As you probably know, for many years, I've tried to
01:09:20indicate how special the knowledge and wisdom of traditional people is.
01:09:28And how much we need to pay attention to that wisdom in order to help restore
01:09:32the world back to harmony.
01:09:42Our approach to harmony is about braiding the best of Western science with the best of
01:09:48indigenous knowledge. Traditionally, those things have been kept in isolation from one another.
01:09:55Harmony is about bringing systems from two different cultural backgrounds together as one,
01:10:01looking at ways for us to transition to a new economy that's much more kinder for people and the planet.
01:10:12We think about more circular economy. An economy that is circular is an economy that respects life.
01:10:23We don't see the trees like aliens. We don't see the birds or other species.
01:10:28They are our relatives. We are the reflection of the sacred elements.
01:10:33We need to treat these elements with respect, with responsibility, and now with regeneration.
01:10:42One of the king's ambitions is that we all use indigenous wisdom to reform how we do business.
01:10:53Indigenous people have shown for thousands of years how you can build an economy,
01:10:58a circular one that prospects in harmony with nature.
01:11:06Instead of disposing or wasting, you maximize the length of those products and materials,
01:11:13using, reducing, repairing and recycling.
01:11:22That partnership between the public, private and indigenous people is, I think, the absolute key to our future.
01:11:32To signify this partnership, the king authored the Terra Carta,
01:11:37an initiative where hundreds of businesses and governments have pledged to become sustainable.
01:11:45The king's whole life has been taking his position and his convening ability and his platform
01:11:54to make a difference. And I think people now, after all these years, do recognize that.
01:12:07The king's personal journey is inspiring. But even more hopeful is the fact that the harmony philosophy
01:12:14is now spreading all by itself, sparking transformations around the world.
01:12:23Our favorite example lies in Rajasthan, India, on the edge of the Tar Desert.
01:12:29The land here was broken by industrial farming. In 2013, Manvendra Singh decided to fix it,
01:12:37using ideas much like harmony.
01:12:41I know about harmony from our visits to Dumfrey's house. It's such a simplistic idea. But when you
01:12:49extrapolate that idea to the way that we view our relationship with nature or with other human beings,
01:12:58it's the only way that it can work.
01:13:05This is a region of Jaipur. It's considered a region where there is no water.
01:13:12There were less than 30 trees on this entire 500-acre piece of land.
01:13:19And there was so much salt that you could smell it in the air.
01:13:27I really remember I had come here with a friend. And he said,
01:13:33What have you got yourself into?
01:13:42It's really difficult for anything to grow here. A lot of it is clay and devoid of any top soil.
01:13:50But this deserted, arid, barren landscape also holds the seeds of an oasis.
01:13:59And it is every desert boy's dream to have an oasis.
01:14:13From the very beginning, I studied how people in the desert store water.
01:14:21This is a step well built in the 1600s.
01:14:26These were, as you can see on that side, it's a well, which taps water from water body.
01:14:34And you have steps that take you all the way to the well.
01:14:47One of the keys to harmony is to use the best of the past to create something new and sustainable.
01:15:00We have bought 17 wells that we intend to convert into step wells.
01:15:10There is something incredible about going within the earth's womb.
01:15:17It creates a sense of belonging.
01:15:21It feels like peace.
01:15:24It's that you're blessed with this big holy people tree.
01:15:31You're right next to a water source in the middle of a desert.
01:15:39In earth's womb, what else would you feel?
01:15:48Before he could build step wells of his own,
01:15:51Manvendra had to dig strategic ponds to collect the rainwater when it falls.
01:15:58Our first water body got filled in four days of rain.
01:16:04The water bodies are an important way of storing water.
01:16:09But it is the most inefficient way of storing water.
01:16:24So we planted about 270,000 trees and opened this land for all the farmers in the region to graze
01:16:37their cattle.
01:16:41You know, with their footfall, the soil starts to get loosened up.
01:16:45And with their manure, it's a natural fertilizer.
01:16:51Now you can basically store a lot more water than you see in the ponds, in the soil itself.
01:16:59It's at least three times.
01:17:03Tree roots pierced the earth's hard crust, allowing water to penetrate.
01:17:09Dung and urine from the animals were mixed in by hooves and by insects.
01:17:13And with a rich new topsoil, a process began to unfold that you could call harmony.
01:17:20As the trees started to become big, there was more bird life, there was more animal life.
01:17:26Then it was like, sit back and enjoy the ride.
01:17:31Wading birds inadvertently brought fish and frog eggs to Manvendra's ponds.
01:17:37With the arrival of the monsoon, the once broken desert was thriving.
01:17:43With more life than anyone imagined possible.
01:17:56In the monsoons, the air feels different.
01:17:59It's like the entire landscape comes together in celebration.
01:18:11Yes, we gave it the initial thing, but now did we bring the fish here?
01:18:16No, we did not.
01:18:18Did we get 180 types of birds here?
01:18:20We did not.
01:18:22Did we make this ecosystem resilient every day?
01:18:26No, we did not do that.
01:18:30We have just been taking credit.
01:18:37It feels very humbling that you can just do one thing and then it unfolds into this butterfly effect.
01:18:47Restoring nature is just the beginning.
01:18:51Using local materials, including these salvaged stone carvings,
01:18:56Manvendra shares the king's vision of building from the goodness of what was already there.
01:19:03His oasis will soon be a sustainable community for hundreds of people.
01:19:09That latent potential, that seed always existed in this place, as it exists in many places,
01:19:16and it exists in many people.
01:19:24Harmony means balance.
01:19:27Isn't that what the universe constantly strives to get to?
01:19:49If you're anything like me, you can feel the disconnection that comes with living in our digital age.
01:19:57But what harmony has shown me is that reconnecting with nature isn't so hard to do.
01:20:04And it can begin with a simple step outside.
01:20:09It all boils down to the fact that we are actually nature ourselves.
01:20:15We are a part of it, not apart from it, which is really how things have been presented for so
01:20:22long.
01:20:22It's only relatively recently we've lost that connection.
01:20:28So deep, deeply embedded in our DNA is a felt knowledge of how to be.
01:20:37Being a countryman, it would have been extraordinary if he had not discovered that.
01:20:48I've always loved the countryside. I've always adored being outside all the time.
01:20:53And as I got older, I took more and more interest.
01:20:59I loved going out and exploring.
01:21:04So for me, it's an essential part of life is to have that connection with the world outside.
01:21:15This whole premise of harmony comes out of the king's love and fascination for the way the natural world operates.
01:21:25He's happiest, I think, when he's in nature.
01:21:31There's something irresistible about a swift swooping with that incredible cry they make.
01:21:37And the speed they go at, they never stop.
01:21:43To me, the Swallow Swifts and Heismond is absolutely critical.
01:21:47I mean, if they didn't come back each year, I'd literally fall into despair, I think.
01:21:52I think it's a good idea.
01:21:58I think it's a good idea.
01:21:58Childhood memories are so vital.
01:22:02My grandmother was a remarkable person I adore.
01:22:05She had the most wonderful, mischievous sense of everything, really.
01:22:09But also her places, like the garden at Royal Lodge, were magical.
01:22:17She encouraged me to look at things, observe.
01:22:22It's fascinating the life that goes on at a microscopic level, if you know what I mean.
01:22:28And if just stopping and really looking and observing is another thing that matters to me a great deal.
01:22:44He's a countryman, and I think he sees a lot of the issues that face the world today from that
01:22:51perspective.
01:22:53He's got his feet very firmly on the ground, and he knows what the ground is made of.
01:23:02It's so funny, these creatures. They made a bit of love.
01:23:23God saves the king!
01:23:26God saves the king!
01:23:29We all face the same choice between the hard right and the easy wrong.
01:23:36I think it was a hard choice, but the right choice, to try to make his life and his position
01:23:42in the royal family something that really mattered. And that's character, that's character.
01:23:52I just feel I can throw a rock into a pond and watch the ripples and create a certain amount
01:23:59of discussion.
01:24:01Hopefully to try and see whether something better can come out of it ultimately.
01:24:08Not many people really understood the man and what he stood for.
01:24:12This has been a man who has had a sensitive appreciation for the planet and for humanity
01:24:19and has wanted to do things which heal places he's seen as being broken.
01:24:26As our planet's life support system begins to fail and our very survival as a species is brought into question,
01:24:34Remember that our children and grandchildren will ask not what our generation said, but what it did.
01:24:44He has been involved with the environment and nature for 50 plus years. And people have tried to push him
01:24:51off it.
01:24:52They've made fun of him. And what's brilliant about the king is he's still there reminding people,
01:24:58we have to get this done. He is the still point in the turning world when it comes to nature.
01:25:05People have thought that it's a dotty thing to do. They always thought it was just people's sandals and long
01:25:10hair.
01:25:15If there's one person who inspires us to see the power of dogged determination and sticking to your guns for
01:25:21a very long time,
01:25:22it's King Charles with his idea of harmony. It is possible in terms of the future to arrive at some
01:25:30sort of harmony or balance between man and nature. Of course, harmony has never been about one man.
01:25:43Harmony has always been about the relationships that we all share.
01:25:50We've witnessed the power of harmony to heal, to inspire. And even in difficult circumstances, harmony brings hope.
01:26:04All of us have been gifted this incredible relationship with nature, which means in the end, any one of us
01:26:12can find harmony.
01:26:16Maybe by the time I shuffle off this mortal coil, there might be a little bit more awareness
01:26:21of the need to bring things back together again.
01:26:30Thank you so much, Your Majesty.
01:26:31Got to get the music right in the background.
01:26:38Thank you. I appreciate it. Thanks so much.
01:26:42I hope you give him a stiff drink.
01:26:46Thank you. Thank you.
01:26:47Thank you. See you soon. I hope some more.
01:27:06We respect you, Your Highness, because as that film showed you, you believe in having a respect and reverence for
01:27:12nature.
01:27:12And I think that's marvellous in a time where we have to worry about the environment. I went to Clarence's
01:27:18house to meet His Royal Highness.
01:27:19They said, His Royal Highness, he's in the greenhouse. And I went there. And there he was, surrounded by the
01:27:24delphiniums and the begonias and the tulips.
01:27:27And he was talking to them. He was talking to them. It is not a rumour. He was actually talking
01:27:32to them.
01:27:32And I just felt so humbled to watch him talk. And I just said, I don't mean to interrupt. And
01:27:37one of the delphiniums said, Please do, for God's sake.
01:27:39I've got no clue what he said. Yes. No clue.
01:27:54Prince Charles even joked when asked to present press awards.
01:27:58I rather feel that being here today is rather like asking a pheasant to award the prizes to the best
01:28:06shot.
01:28:12And speaking, speaking as a pheasant, with an H, you have been wonderfully sporting shots.
01:28:33He rang me up to say that he was in the dentist's chair when he was the Prince of Wales.
01:28:38And the only thing keeping him sane and stopping him from feeling the pain was the fact that I was
01:28:42on the radio in the surgery.
01:28:44And I did venture to ask him, you know, what were you having done?
01:28:49And there was a slight pause and he said, I was having a crown fitted.
01:28:52I was having a crown fitted.
01:29:22It was a hundred, right?
01:29:23I was having a crown Justin MacArthur.
01:29:24I was having a crown.
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