00:00I think when we first started it, it started as a very small idea with Harry and I scratching our
00:04heads going how can we do something that's going to help us in the future?
00:08How are we going to build something that's going to provide almost a vehicle to allow us to impact in
00:15charitable areas?
00:16Because it was quite difficult at the time. Harry and I used to go to a lot of engagements and
00:20see these incredible charities doing really great work.
00:24But felt that we could give more and how could we do that?
00:27And so the foundation idea sort of bubbled up as a sort of vehicle to be able to do more
00:33when we walked away from these engagements.
00:35Actually going back right to the beginning when we were looking at the different ways in which we could all
00:39work with the foundation.
00:41And I suppose I'd learned through sort of meeting some of my patronages that there was sort of all these
00:47underlying causes across so many different sectors.
00:51Mental health just kept on flagging up every time whether it's with addiction or school support.
00:57And with vulnerable young children.
00:59So it's something that I felt very passionate about.
01:02It's obviously such a huge topic.
01:04It wasn't as big as I actually thought it was.
01:07But it was something that I think all three of us at the time felt that we really could make
01:12a far bigger impact together.
01:14Rather than just one of us acting alone on it.
01:16It would be interesting to find out first of all your impressions of the Royal Foundation so far.
01:21And what you're hoping to do.
01:22Don't be too critical.
01:23Yeah, no, of course.
01:25Well, obviously it's incredibly exciting.
01:27And yes, I think for me it's been a very long time working on cause-driven work specifically with women
01:33and girls' rights.
01:34But, you know, to see the model of the foundation is really interesting.
01:38Because while I've worked with larger NGOs or I've also worked with really small grassroots organizations where you can see
01:44a higher level of impact.
01:45In my opinion, because there's a lot less red tape.
01:48What you're seeing here and what I noticed with Heads Together from a global perspective.
01:52Because I wasn't here obviously when it was happening.
01:55Was the power of convening all of these smaller organizations who have the same issue but need that extra push
02:01and support.
02:02Under this umbrella you're able to achieve that.
02:04And the impact they all made with Heads Together was tremendous.
02:07So I'm very excited to be able to work on initiatives similarly and that can have that same sort of
02:13impact globally.
02:14Heads Together is an amazing convening power.
02:18But also the perception of mental health now across this country and also in other countries has changed without a
02:24doubt.
02:25And I think the timing was absolutely perfect on that.
02:30But again, it's all about tackling the cause and not the symptom.
02:35And I think in today's society we have, it's very easy to get sucked in to trying to sort out
02:41the symptom.
02:42We, the four of us and everybody at the Royal Foundation and all of our supporters hopefully believe that actually
02:48in order to have long lasting change.
02:51To have a long lasting impact, you have to somewhat ignore the symptom or go to the symptom, talk, listen
02:57to them and then come wind it all the way back to find out the cause.
03:01Because otherwise you're just putting a band-aid on the problem.
03:03It'd be wonderful if we could do another project or another campaign, you know, similar impact Heads Together or, you
03:09know, as a unit, as a family.
03:11But I think we've got to be careful how and when we target those moments.
03:15You've got to use them carefully and you've got to plan for them.
03:17They take a lot of preparation to do.
03:19I think each of us have got our own ideas and work streams that we'd like to build upon.
03:24For me personally, I think following on from Heads Together, tackling male mental health, there's still a huge stigma and
03:31taboo around male mental health.
03:33Suicide, for instance, among young men is still one of the biggest killers in the country.
03:37Some of the statistics that came out from Heads Together was that we managed to create 800,000 new conversations
03:45amongst men on mental health,
03:47which we thought was really good.
03:49And the other interesting fact as well was that only 2% of people at work go to HR to
03:55talk about mental health.
03:562%.
03:57So that shows that, you know, work is one of the most stressful places that we go to every day.
04:01And the fact is that people aren't feeling like they can go to work and actually speak to those people
04:05who, in theory, know the system and know the environment you're working in.
04:10Um, yes.
04:12I mean, I think that knowing that I've just been here for three months, right, and in that amount of
04:17time.
04:18Well, but with that said, for me, it's very important to, once you hit the ground running, even if you're
04:23doing it quietly behind the scenes,
04:24which is what I've focused my energy on thus far, is meeting with the right people, meeting with the right
04:28organizations behind the scenes quietly,
04:30learning as much as I can so that I can maximize the opportunity we have here to really make an
04:35impact.
04:35I think what's interesting is I hear a lot of people saying when speaking about girls' empowerment, finding and knowing
04:42their worth, or women's empowerment as well,
04:45you'll often hear people say, well, you're helping women find their voices.
04:49And I fundamentally disagree with that because women don't need to find a voice.
04:53They have a voice.
04:54They need to feel empowered to use it.
04:56And people need to be encouraged to listen.
04:58And I think right now in the climate that we're seeing with so many campaigns, I mean, with Me Too
05:03and Time's Up,
05:05there is no better time than to really continue to shine a light on women feeling empowered and people really
05:12helping to support them, men included in that.
05:14I mean, it makes such a tremendous difference.
05:17So, yeah, just, I guess we wait a couple months, and then we can hit the ground running.
05:24But up until then, I'm pretty excited.
05:26But I will say, you know, if we know how, and I certainly know how passionate I am, and Harry
05:33and I see the world so similarly in our approach of being very hands-on with things,
05:37what I can say is that I have been fortunate enough to meet with some incredible women and organizations in
05:45general in the UK that are doing work here,
05:47but then also knowing that some of the work that I've done in the past has been in commonwealth countries
05:51like Rwanda, India.
05:53So this reach, I think, can have some really nice legs to it once we can start.
05:58Off the leg.
05:59Yes, exactly.
06:00To be continued.
06:02Okay.
06:02As family, do you ever have disagreements about things?
06:07Oh, yes.
06:10Healthy disagreements.
06:11Okay, the last thing you disagreed on, how do you resolve it?
06:16I can't remember, they come so thick and thin.
