Finding Harmony: A King's Vision (2026) Movie Script

[high-pitched tone droning]
[Kate Winslet] What is the opposite
of harmony?
We could argue, it's a disconnection.
[horns honking]
Like being cut off from each other
and from nature.
[solemn music playing]
New technological breakthroughs
keep making life better for so many...
...but could we be losing
something vital along the way?
Every day, we're told
the natural world is on fire.
Where's the hope?
[uplifting music playing]
Well, we've been out searching.
Which brings us to Harmony.
People who practice Harmony
invite us to see the world in a new way.
They suggest that the very things
we've become disconnected from
may hold the key to our future.
And they claim that,
even if we've broken nature,
once we bring her back, the land, people
and communities can all be healed.
If they're right,
then maybe the future is full of hope.

And the man who has spent a lifetime
building Harmony...
Well, that's also a bit of a surprise.
-I wasn't... I wasn't expecting that.
-[Kristina Murrin laughing]
[Murrin] A reception crew, sir.
[wind blowing]
-[birds chirping]
-[water flowing]
[bagpipes playing in distance]
[bird calling]
[bagpipes continue playing]
[Winslet] What is Harmony?
And what's it got to do
with King Charles III?
As it happens, for over 50 years,
the King has been experimenting
with ways to bring nature back
into every part of our lives.
He calls it Harmony,
and it's been catching on.

[bagpipes fade]
[guide] ...3D manner to make it look
like a 3D effect and fill the shadows.
A key item I'd really like to show you
are these caskets here...
[Winslet] Today more than ever,
people are flocking to venues
run by The King's Foundation
to learn how they can create Harmony
for their own families and communities.
[low, indistinct conversations]
And that's certainly what interested me.
[uplifting music playing]
[Murrin] One of our jobs here is to bring
together different people, so you've got--
Yes, you've got presidents,
but you've got academics,
-you've got farmers, you've got--
-Yeah. Thought leaders. You've got--
Yeah, all sorts of people.
And-and that doesn't happen very often,
so when you bring them together,
that's when you get really
interesting sparks.
[indistinct conversation]
Now, you two have to meet
my fantastic friend...
[Murrin] The boss has a few
favorite phrases and one of them is,
-"Seeing is believing."
-[Simon Sadinsky] Mm.
[Murrin] If you get people to Dumfries
House and they see what's going on,
they'll get it.
And they go, "Right, w-we need this.
We need to take it back.
-We need to do something."
-[Sadinsky] Mm. Mm.
[low, indistinct conversations]
[music fades]
[birds chirping]
[Winslet] Throughout his life,
the King developed a core set of beliefs
about our world,
which have at times got him into trouble.
[King Charles III] Give them
a good chance to see them...
-Definitely, definitely.
-[continues indistinctly]
[Winslet] Over and over,
people even dismissed him as crazy,
but today his ideas seem
more like common sense.
To follow this journey,
we will travel with him back in time...
Good morning, everybody. Good morning.
-Good morning.
-[Rob Dersley] This is our film team.
This is Jane,
who is the assistant producer, sir.
[Winslet] ...as it's the King's untold
personal story
that shows us how Harmony
can transform our future.
-Had we better crack on?
-Absolutely.
[Dersley] Uh, I haven't introduced you
to the technical team.
They've now set themselves up.
-This is Adam who is doing the sound, sir.
-[Adam] Lovely to meet you, Your Majesty.
-Uh...
-That is heavy, though.
-[Adam] It is quite heavy.
-[laughter]
[indistinct chatter]
Anyway, I l-look forward to seeing how
it all ends up, if you know what I mean.
[Nicolas Brown] It's a heck of a story.
It will be nice to try and see
if we can get through to people,
but who knows? [grunts softly]
[loud booming]
[narrator] Her Royal Highness
is the proud and happy mother of a Prince.
The salute is fired,
and in the Monarch's home lies
the infant boy who will one day be king.
[upbeat music playing]
[King Charles III] I was born in 1948.
By the mid 1950s,
a frenzy of change
was sweeping the world...
[crowd cheering]
...and that created a new age
of radical experimentation
in every major field of human endeavor.
[Winslet] It's no accident
that the King discovered Harmony
during a time of unprecedented change.
Historians call it the Great Acceleration.
[playful shouting, laughter]
When the King was born,
our planet was home to 2.5 billion people,
but in mere decades,
that number has tripled.
And as the human population exploded,
our ability to house and feed ourselves
grew even faster.
Suddenly, millions of us
began living longer, consuming more
and traveling the world in ways
our forebears couldn't dream of.
While most people in 1960s Britain
were enjoying the benefits,
some noticed that all this progress
came at a price.
[solemn music playing]
[King Charles III] When I was
a teenager in the '60s,
I saw so much being destroyed around us.
All our precious flourished meadows
and wetlands
and the hedges were ripped up
and the trees cut down.
The centers of our towns and cities
were ripped out.
You know,
it was all going on at a huge pace.
And I remember thinking,
"But this is gonna go too far."
[music fades]
[Winslet] At the time, public discussions
about the environment were rare.
So, when the 21-year-old Prince
gave one of his first public speeches,
many were shocked by what he had to say.
We are faced, at the moment,
with the horrifying effects of pollution
in all its cancerous forms.
There is the growing menace
of oil pollution at sea.
There is chemical pollution
discharged into rivers from factories
and chemical plants,
which clogs up the rivers
with toxic substances
and adds to the filth in the seas.
Well, it was quite a long time ago,
and I, I remember being... [sighs] well,
profoundly, you know,
concerned about all this.
[solemn music playing]
It seemed crazy to go on
without thinking carefully
about how we manage all this.
[Ian Skelly] By the time I started
to hear the then Prince of Wales
making these statements,
they did, they did resonate.

I can remember thinking, yes,
this chap is concerned about things,
which of course wasn't something
that you'd expect
from a member of the royal family,
you know.
They-they didn't, they didn't...
they didn't talk about these things.
[seagulls squawking]
[upbeat music playing]
[indistinct chanting]
[Winslet] The Prince
may have lived a life apart,
yet his views struck a common chord.
By April 22, 1970,
20 million people took to the streets
to celebrate the first Earth Day.
Many say the environmental movement
was born.
[crowd cheering]

[Patrick Holden] There was a shift
of consciousness
which was going on
all over the world at that time.
And I think there was
some sort of yearning
that the Prince had to be part of that.
Probably never quite articulated,
but I think nevertheless felt.
So, even though he had
this very privileged upbringing,
very separate from normal people,
at some level, he was affected
by this atmosphere of change.
Jamie Oliver once said
he was a bit of a hippie,
and I think that's probably true.
[music ends]
-[chickens clucking]
-Come on.
Come along.
Come on.
Now...
Here.
Come on.
-[latch opening]
-[clucking]
Oh, it's all right. Let me see.
Come on.
[speaking quietly] Come on.
-[clucking continues]
-All right, all right.
[clucking continues]
[Brown] See, that looks good.
That's a good haul.
Well, the great thing is you give them
something in return, always.
[both chuckling]
At least they can peck about out here.
They love it.
There we are.
[Winslet] In 1980, the then
Prince of Wales moved into Highgrove,
where he still lives today.
[uplifting music playing]
What no one knew back then
was that he had plans
to turn his home into a test bed
for his radical ideas about Harmony.
[King Charles III] When I first came here,
this was completely empty.
And, um, and half the wall
had gone.
I then thought of a plan
which was based on
the St. Andrew's cross
and the St. George's cross.
[uplifting music fades]
I wanted to find ways of ensuring
that you could rescue
all these, um,
threatened heritage varieties.
-[Brown] Yes. Yeah.
-Of everything.
You have all the vegetables:
potatoes, cauliflower, peas, beans.
I mean, a lot of them were being
just abandoned.
So, I did my utmost to have
as many rare breeds here as possible,
to demonstrate how valuable they are,
because of course concentrating
on just a few varieties
-makes us unbelievably vulnerable...
-Mm.
...as we're finding,
to disease and everything else.
And half the battle, I think,
is to find the right varieties.
If you want to have decent baked potatoes,
which I love,
you've got to get the crispy skins.
So, what do you--
So, the Red Duke of Yorks are very good...
[laughing]
...we've discovered,
again through trial and error.
[Winslet] The King's efforts to protect
the diversity of fruits and vegetables
was a part of his overall mission
to bring nature back into farming
and gardening.
[uplifting music playing]
In the first half of the 20th century,
old farming systems couldn't keep up with
the sudden increase in human population.
Mass famines claimed tens of millions
of lives all over the world.
But scientists came to the rescue in what
has been hailed as the green revolution.
They invented a suite
of industrial farming techniques
that proved wildly successful.
In a short time,
we grew more food than we needed
and saved millions of lives
in the process.
The scientists won Nobel Prizes,
and the human population
could grow unhindered.
But there was still a problem.
[music fades]
[engine idling]
[Tony Juniper] The green revolution,
where we had this massive emphasis
on producing more and more food,
it harnessed several strands
of-of new activity.
One was the production of toxic pesticides
to wipe out most living things
in the landscape except the crop.
[dramatic music playing]
There was the production of
vast quantities of artificial fertilizer
produced with fossil fuels and nitrogen
from the atmosphere,
harnessed for the explicit goal
of fostering maximum growth.
[narrator] We must fight
our insect enemies
with every weapon science can devise.

[Winslet] During the green revolution,
farmers enlarged their fields
and planted monocultures.
They then enriched the soil
with chemical fertilizers
that supercharged plant growth.
But this caused everything to grow,
not just the crops.
So, they had to add chemical herbicides
and pesticides
to kill everything except the crop.
To this day, around the world,
soil that once thrived in a harmonious
web of life has been collateral damage.
The green revolution was fantastic.
Absolutely.
We need more food. We still do.
But not at the expense of nature.
[Holden] Chemical fertilizers
and then pesticides had become
embedded in agricultural practice
and policy
for a whole generation,
and then along comes
the Prince of Wales and says,
"Well, actually, that's not right."
[Prince Charles] No matter
how cost-effective
intensive food production appears to be,
our current approach
will lead to a dead end.
We must put nature back
at the heart of the equation.
[Skelly] The then Prince of Wales started
this, uh, experiment
in a corner of Home Farm
at Highgrove.
[narrator] For Prince Charles,
Highgrove House in Gloucestershire
is where the Prince has begun
to put into practice
his ideas about man's place
in the natural world.
The gardens, woods,
parkland and farms are all run
within a regime that works with nature,
rather than with the aid of chemical
fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides.
[chuckles softly]
That's a very nice reminder
of my dogs, I must say.
But, um,
I felt the time had come to demonstrate
how you could restore soil fertility,
because by then,
the soil had lost all its life.
[sheep bleating]
All this sort of thing was considered
completely bonkers... [laughs]
...to say the least.
[gentle music playing]
[Juniper] News headlines began
to appear, um,
around the Prince of Wales
having purchased
an organic farm in Gloucestershire.
And in those days,
organic was not really very understood.
[Brian Archer] He's going organic.
What do you mean organic?
You mean with no chemicals,
just lots and lots of manure?
[Brian] Yep, the natural approach.
[Peggy] They'll be living like peasants.
[Brian] They'll be working like dogs.
[Holden] There were many people
who surrounded him
and advised him that he should be careful
in what he got involved with.
Organic farming was something
which was not mainstream
and something which was a perilous sphere
to engage with.
[Winslet] While explaining his passion
for organic gardening to the press,
Prince Charles made a comment
that's haunted him ever since.
[Prince Charles] Oh, I love coming here,
and I potter about and sit and read,
or I just come and talk
to the plants, really.
Very important to talk to them.
They respond, don't they?
[laughing]
[Amelia Fawcett] As the press always does,
they pick up on the sound bite
that they can then
ridicule, um, about talking to plants,
um, and that starts to become...
the narrative.
[Juniper] It was used
as a way of diminishing
the organic argument
and presenting him as somehow
slightly odd and slightly dotty.
[Holden] Those criticisms
really upset him.
He got treated very unfairly
and seen very unfairly,
and those of us that knew him better
were quite upset by that.
And it was difficult to know
how to respond, but I really felt for him.
-[birds chirping]
-[sheep bleating]
[Winslet] Despite the opposition,
Prince Charles's farm
began selling organic food.
Duchy Originals became a national brand,
and to date, their sales have raised
over 50 million pounds for charity.
[uplifting music playing]
The success of the Prince's
first Harmony experiment
has inspired nature-based
farming practices around the world.
[cattle mooing]
[Holden] What we developed
and the King has championed for 40 years,
to move to its next phase,
where the principles and the practices
of organic farming
can be taken to scale.
And one of them
is regenerative agriculture.
[bees buzzing]
[Winslet] Regenerating topsoil
and bringing nature back onto farms
could mean we eat better.
It also means we might store
more carbon in the soil
and slow climate change.
[Holden] That is a big shift
which is just taking place now, actually.
Interestingly, after all these years,
the Harmony project's time has come.
And it really has.

[music fades]
[solemn music playing]
[Winslet] After Highgrove, Prince Charles
was ready to scale up from farming.
He wanted to find out if Harmony
could benefit an entire community.
So, in the 2000s, he began looking around
the United Kingdom
in areas that had fallen on hard times.
[reporter] It was coal mining
that made the Cumnock area,
and it was coal mining that unmade it,
created an economy overdependent
on a single industry,
and as one pit closure followed another
throughout the '80s,
it left an area ill-equipped to readjust
to the small business enterprise culture.
[Winslet] In the 1980s,
many heavy industries and manufacturing
left the UK for foreign shores.
The Cumnock area in Scotland
was particularly hard hit...
...and even country estates like
Dumfries House were falling apart.
[King Charles III] When I discovered
that this place was due to be sold
and everything in it,
eventually I took a, a...
a somewhat, you know, risky decision to...
raise the money in a loan.
[man] This exercise is
a huge amount of money,
and if this goes wrong,
we've got problems.
[upbeat music playing]
[Winslet] The then Prince
gambled his reputation
on a dream larger
and more complex than Highgrove.
With Dumfries House,
his plan was not only to heal the land
but bring Harmony
to the surrounding community as well.
[Prince Charles] We'll get there
in the end.
Let's hope, anyway.
[King Charles III] I felt it was critical
to try and demonstrate
how you could regenerate an entire area.
How we could help raise aspirations
and create new hope
by bringing people together
in a thoroughly integrated,
uh, collaborative way.
Sustainability, the whole--
all that agenda, is critical here
because in order to make--
I want to say this area
is a great example of how
you can create new business and jobs
in the green economy.

[Murrin] His Majesty saved this property
for the community,
and we started really very simply
some of the principles
he'd had at Highgrove.
So, let's put nature at the center,
so he opens up the ground.
Then we needed to restore the house.
We couldn't find the stonemasons,
the carpenters to do it,
so we went, "Oh, right,
we better start training them."
Then we needed people
to work in the house,
and there weren't the hospitality programs
that we wanted
that were done in a sustainable way,
so we started teaching those courses.
So, each element has really built
based on what the community needs.
[music fades]
[Winslet] It was easy to see how
the Dumfries House estate had improved,
but what was the impact on people?
The story of Stuart Banks stood out.
When Stuart's father was injured,
he struggled to find work.
And when Stuart was only 12,
his father took his own life.
[solemn music playing]
You can see parallels in my personal story
to the area.
The kind of loss in the coal mines
and the loss of industry in the area.
It was a big shock in the system.
It's kind of hard to get over,
and especially when you're so young,
you kind of lose the motivation
to do anything.
And that kind of led me into
dropping out of school early.
By the time I was like 14, 15,
I was proper housebound.
I was in that kind of reclused hole.
That empty hole.
I think when you're in that position,
you think you can't be healed.
It took me a long time
to kind of build back up,
and it was not an overnight thing.
I did start going to the JobCentre
and asking for things.
The JobCentre said that there was
a five-week hospitality course
at Dumfries House.
[optimistic music playing]
I was there a couple of weeks,
and I started to get the bug.
I knew what they were doing here
was something a little bit special.
I got inspired.
My motivation increased and increased
and increased...
...and by the end of the course,
they offered me a job.
It was, like, the first time, uh,
someone in my life,
outside of, like, my close family,
had really put-put their arm
on my shoulder and said, "Look,
you can do it."

[Winslet] It's not just Stuart.
All the people we met at Dumfries House
belong to a larger ecosystem.
[mooing]
The farm, the restaurant and the house,
even the woodworkers
and textile designers--
everyone is striving
to live sustainably from the land.
-Beautiful. Thank you very much.
-Yeah.
We'll make good use of them.
[Winslet] And most of the skills
they practice and teach
are connected to the heritage
of this region of Scotland.
[Murrin] Dumfries House
has really become a driver
for the economy here.
You know, we are one of
the biggest employers in the area.
We train 10,000 people here a year.
-Yeah.
-Is it, is it straight, as well.
[King Charles III] You're getting better
and better at it. I can't get over it.
-Can--
-[Graheme] Me either.
-No.
-[both laughing]
[Murrin] We've got students
who will tell you
they come from three generations
of families that had never been employed.
But there's a future here.
[King Charles III laughing]
[happy chattering]
[David Cadman] When he saves
Dumfries House, he doesn't save it
as an object, just to be looked at.
He saves it
to bring healing to the local community,
to bring vitality, a new vitality,
and, of course,
this-this links us to Harmony.
Because for a community to flourish,
you need harmonious order and balance.
[birds chirping]
[Stuart] Whether it's in nature,
whether it's in people,
um, I think, um, he is focused
on not leaving something broken
and trying to fix what he can.
And I think it has definitely
rubbed off, you know.
[Stuart] To anyone who's new here,
welcome.
We hope you have a lovely time with us.
The Tea Dance is something that we run
regularly throughout the year.
So, if this is your first time,
we do hope to see you back.
[violins tuning]
[low chattering]
[upbeat intro playing]
[Murrin] The Tea Dance came
from such a simple insight.
[lively music playing]
You go up to the Health & Wellbeing
Centre and you say,
"Okay, what should we be doing next?"
And they tell you how lonely
a lot of old people are.
They can go days
without talking to people.

Common sense, it's gonna have an impact
on your mental health, but also
the impact it has
on your physical health as well.
So, what a simple idea.

[Stuart] This place changed my life,
and it's great seeing people
who may have struggled in the past
coming out and being confident,
enthusiastic,
and they get right into it.

[woman] Lovely to see you.
-You ready for a dance today?
-Yes, of course I am.
Sure-- Make sure it's a nice...
-slow one.
-A slow one?
-Oh...
-Hey, you gonna hold my hand as well?
-If you like.
-I mean, I'm...
[laughter]

[Winslet] Once the community here started
to see tangible benefits from Harmony,
word began to spread.
[music fades]
And as we discovered, it's this philosophy
of Harmony that can be applied
even when you're not
on a beautiful country estate.
[Muhammed Foulds] Here at HMP Bristol,
we are a Cat B very-high-security prison.
Prisoners are coming here
for all sorts of reasons,
from drugs to abuse to mental issues,
gang culture.
[metal door slams shut]
We are seeing these individuals
come in here
because society's broken,
the family's broken.
So, of course,
you're gonna get broken individuals.
[Foulds] Okay, guys,
if you just come round here.
Welcome to HMP Bristol's
beekeeping academy.
All the bees that you are seeing
at the moment are the foraging bees,
and they're out there
collecting the pollen and the nectar.
All these bees work in harmony. Okay?
-Hence the Harmony project here.
-[bees buzzing loudly]
[Osien] Look at that.
There's honey inside there.
[inmate] Oh, [bleep].
I've got one on my hand and my pocket.
[Osien] Give you a sting?
[inmate] No, but it's about to.
Oh, [bleep].
99.99% of prisoners are here
because they have no understanding
of a relationship.
Husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend,
family breakdown.
The natural world will teach them
about relationships,
how to think as an ecosystem.
-[gentle music playing]
-[bees buzzing]
[Andrew] When you see 'em all
working as one,
yeah, it's-it's quite a fascinating thing.
I mean, I feel quite relaxed.
Even though they could attack you
at any time, they don't.
They just go along
with their own daily thing.
-
-[buzzing quietly]
[Foulds] The whole life of a hive
is a system, is a city within a city.
And they make that connection.
Y-You're not just an individual,
but you live within a community.
Then we make that link with wider society,
and we keep emphasizing
the umbrella of every step is Harmony.
-
-[buzzing quietly]
[music fades]
[birds chirping]
[Winslet] The core belief
of the Harmony project
is that nature has the power
to both teach and heal.
That's one reason the gardens
at Dumfries House are free
and open to the public.
[Jessie Mitchell] What a lovely way
to spend the evening.
[birds chirping]
Beautiful.
-[leaves rustling]
-[birds calling]
I'm 91.
Sometimes it's not till you're older
that you appreciate these things,
because we're too busy working.
[birds chirping]
It wasn't until I retired
and started getting out and about
and going to different places
and realizing what nature was like.
So, I just love it.
Hear the birds.
[birds chirping]
Absolutely relaxed.
I can forget my pain for a wee while.
This, this takes your mind away.
Stops you thinking about yourself.
[gentle music playing]
[Willis] When we're in nature,
nature passes into our bodies.
-[birds chirping]
-[leaves rustling]
When you breathe in a smell,
the scent that you're smelling
is a volatile organic compound.
It hits air from a plant,
it turns into gas.
And that's why you get a lovely smell.
Think about lavender or pine or cedar.
All of these beautiful smells.

And what they've shown is
when people walk,
for example, in a pine forest,
pine molecules have passed into the blood.
Some of these scents interact
with the same biochemical pathways
as if it's a prescription drug.
And these are automatic changes
that happen in our body
whether or not we think,
"I'm in nature, I'm relaxed" or not.
[music fades]
[King Charles III] The beeches
I'd planted right at the beginning.
[laughs] I can't believe how,
how much they've grown.
Beginning, it was going in like this.
I thought I'd never live to see.
The fact that I have is, you know--
praise be to God, frankly.
Hence, I built that little sanctuary.
I built it to-to mark the millennium.
But it's all built of earth and straw
from here.
[Tobyn] Is this where you find
your Harmony, sir?
A little bit. I hope.
-Or ask for more of it, I hope.
-[Tobyn laughs]
For everybody else.
So, you see, I had this quote
from a prayer book.
"Lighten our darkness,
we beseech thee, O Lord."
That's the other point of Harmony,
how do you link the two together,
because we...
we are a microcosm of the macrocosm.
There are these universal principles
which seem to apply.
You know, all our bodies and everything
are constructed
around these proportionate systems,
as are all the rest--
as are all the rest of nature.
[gentle music playing]
[Winslet] Meeting the King,
you get the feeling he believes strongly
in the physical and even spiritual
connection we all share with nature.
It's a relationship that he feels
in his lifetime has been steadily eroding.
[dramatic music playing]
[Skelly] We did become so disconnected
from the world that we inhabit,
and once you become disconnected,
you don't think it's your responsibility.
[Juniper] The scientific revolution
took us into a view
of the world being a mechanism
rather than an integrated sacred whole...

...and then into our modern world
where we sit behind computer screens
and we're consumers
who've now lost sight of how
the planet's life support systems work.
[Winslet] In the 1980s,
Prince Charles once again emerged
as an early voice questioning
the modern way of doing things.
Only this time, his focus was
on the way we build our cities and towns.
Too many of our modern buildings are huge,
blank and impersonal.
We have created somewhat
godforsaken cities from which nature,
or indeed the spiritual side of life,
has almost been erased.
[Skelly] I remember the
then Prince of Wales talked about this
deep connection between
the built and the natural world,
and we severed it.
[Winslet] Searching for a better way
to build towns and cities,
Prince Charles started a school
for designers and architects
whose work focused on reviving
our connection with nature.
[Richard] We're calling this
a chiral pattern,
so it has mirror symmetry, and...
[Khaled Azzam] The then Prince of Wales,
I think, was interested in us because
we were, you know, investigating,
looking at nature, the order of nature,
that sense of unity and truth
that holds the world
and our existence together.
And I think this is something
the Prince of Wales really wanted to form
as the core of his thinking.
We don't teach geometry
for the sake of teaching geometry.
This is not about cosmetic patterns.
This is about how we understand
that these things are cosmic
and how they relate
to the cosmos that we live in.
It's about understanding
this constantly creative order around us.
[uplifting music playing]
[Winslet] Scholars call it sacred geometry
or the grammar of harmony.
And they've been mapping the many patterns
that recur across space and time.

From microscopic organisms
to the human body...
...up to the eight-year-long shapes
made by Venus in the night sky...
...it seems that everything in our world
is united by natural mathematics.
And whether we are aware of it or not,
these ever-unfolding shapes
have a profound effect
on our emotions and our well-being.
In a word, they inspire awe.

[Holden] Everything is connected.
Nothing is separate.
So, it's very empowering
to an individual person
who's trying to make sense of the world
in which I find myself
to know that within my own experience,
even within my own body,
are the laws and the principles
which find expression in everything
in the world we find ourselves.
[heart beating]
We are nature.
We are a part of nature,
not apart from nature.
[Winslet] Archaeologists discovered how,
from the beginning,
the order of nature
inspired human creativity.
Back then, nature dominated our lives.
The seasons and cycles set the tempo.
[ice crackling]
And as our civilizations grew,
we used the grammar of harmony in
our most sacred monuments and buildings.
[uplifting music swells]
Even as more of us moved
into towns and cities,
we brought the order of nature with us,
creating spaces inspired by wild beauty.
However, as our technology became
ever more impressive,
we turned our backs on the natural world.
[discordant music playing]
The order of nature became overshadowed
by the order of mankind.
[low chatter]
[Dominic Richards] We've seen
the industrialization
of so many different parts of our lives.
That industrialization,
whether it's large-scale tower blocks
that treat human beings
as battery hens or chickens
in battery hen industrial farming,
it denies something about our spirit,
and it denies something
of, uh, harmony and nature,
which His Majesty has long fought against.
[explosion]
[man] Today, Britain faces
its worst housing crisis since wartime.
Thousands of flats and homes
are desired by no one,
least of all by the people
who live in them.
[woman] There must be reasons
why these architects, uh,
build these flats in this design
and this hard barrack-looking way,
because I'm sure they couldn't possibly
like the outlook of them themselves.
[solemn music playing]
[Richards] These postwar tower blocks
were poorly constructed buildings,
which tended to be social housing,
places where people's aspirations
and abilities to get on in life
were restricted by the built form.
-[dog barking]
-So, you therefore
created societal problems.
[siren wailing in distance]
[music fades]
[Winslet] Inspired by ideas emerging
from his school of architecture,
Prince Charles began to challenge
the way Britain
was developing its towns and cities.
[upbeat music playing]
[Prince Charles] Birmingham city centre
became a monstrous concrete maze.
Cars were placed above people,
and people were placed one above the other
on concrete shelves.
[Azzam] When we went
through architecture school,
we were not allowed
to question certain things.
You can't question these...
these icons of architecture.
But this lack of questioning
of what they're doing and the agenda
with which they're producing buildings
or interpreting our cultural heritage,
um, had to be questioned,
and he did question that.
[Prince Charles] Look at the Bullring.
It has no charm, no character.
It's a planned accident.
It's the central library,
but how could you tell?
It looks like a place
where books are incinerated, not kept.
That is redolent of a word processor.
I try very hard, I must say,
to persuade myself to appreciate that,
but I can't.
I can't.

The big story, of course, was when
he stood up and criticized this new design
for the extension to the National Gallery.
[Prince Charles] What is proposed
seems to me like a monstrous carbuncle
on the face of
a much-loved elegant friend.
[Skelly] That was the big moment when
his concerns about architecture
went around the world.
[Richards] He upset a lot of people
in authority, paradoxically.
And when the orthodoxy was challenged,
that's when people's backs got up.
Nostalgic, and certainly,
I believe, very out of time
with current architectural thought.
I don't see why in the 21st century
we should be building fairyland.
Because everybody shoots their mouth off,
it doesn't mean to say they talk sense.
[Richards] The debate around architecture
and urban planning
became railroaded into a style war.
There was a characterization
that His Majesty wanted
to live in some idyllic Jane Austen world.
But His Majesty was speaking
for a lot of us
who just felt like
we don't necessarily agree
in the way that we're developing
and building our cities or our towns,
that we want to look
at things differently.
-[dog barking]
-[music fades]
[Skelly] The Prince of Wales, as was,
knew that there is another way
of building,
another way of thinking
about urban design,
that has a better chance
of cohering communities rather than
ignoring what a community needs.
Plans for a new town on land
belonging to the Prince of Wales
have been unveiled today.
The development, to be called Poundbury,
will be built just outside Dorchester
on farmland owned by
the Duchy of Cornwall.
It's the Prince's first opportunity
to put his ideas on architecture
into practice on such a large scale.
[Winslet] In designing Poundbury, the
Prince set about trying to solve problems
that he felt were plaguing modern cities.
For example, how to narrow the growing gap
between the rich and the poor.
[upbeat music playing]
[Cadman] In Poundbury,
affordable housing is included
with the more general housing,
but it's not defined.
So, you're mixing the community up
with much greater sensitivity.
[happy chattering]
[Richards] His Majesty cares about
the whole of society.
And if you look at society
as an organism, the whole of that society
needs to be healthy and well.
[birds chirping]
[Winslet] Crucially,
Poundbury was designed around nature,
so every resident lives a short walk away
from open green space.
[Willis] Scientists did a ten-year study,
and they looked at
about three million people
and looked at how close they lived
to urban green space.
And they showed that every 350 meters
you were further away from green space,
the worse off you were in terms of
your mental health over those ten years.
Green space
and access to it in cities is so critical.

[King Charles III] I've tried
to demonstrate how Harmony in practice
could be made to work rather than
just talk about all these things.
To see is there something perhaps here
to learn from.
[Winslet] Poundbury, like Dumfries House,
is founded upon the philosophy of Harmony,
and both places exist in a relatively
wealthy and stable United Kingdom.
But what if you live in a part of
the world that hasn't been so fortunate?
-[dramatic music playing]
-[guns firing]
Afghanistan has been in and out of war
since 1979.
And after the 2001 terrorist attacks
in New York,
America and her allies took control
of the country from the Taliban.
[music fades]
Five years later,
Prince Charles approached
a newly-elected president Karzai
with the idea of a Harmony project
in the heart of Kabul.
[traffic sounds, horns honking]
The charity they founded is still going,
and we accompanied its president,
Shoshana Stewart, to her headquarters.
[Stewart] I love this courtyard.
I remember
when it was completely destroyed.
And to walk in here and see
all the flowers, it's just a total joy.
If you go back to the early 2000s,
in many ways, Afghanistan was the center
of the world at that time
because there was
a huge international intervention.
And meanwhile,
there's an insurgency going on.
[solemn music playing]
-[distant gunfire]
-There were
suicide attacks in Kabul
multiple times a week.
The old city of Kabul was
neglected and crumbling.
Every building had some combination
of one to four walls left.
[uplifting music playing]
The first thing to do
was just deal with the piles of rubble.
So, we basically just employed
every eligible person around
with a wheelbarrow and shovel.
We realized very quickly there was
no water supply, sanitation, electricity.
Those houses needed running water,
and they needed to be electrified.
They needed health care,
which ended up in us
creating the clinic.
What began
with buildings
and a school of traditional arts
became all the stuff that you need
in a living community.

[music fades]
[Winslet] In 2010, Prince Charles
made a visit to see for himself
the progress the charity had made.
[Stewart] Every interaction that I've had
with His Majesty
about this project has been a genuine love
of that place and of wanting to hear
about the people who made these things.
[low conversations]
He'll pick out little details,
because he has a love of these traditions
and of the sacred geometry behind them.
[Winslet] Just like at Dumfries House,
the driving force here
has been the revival of skills
that form the core
of Afghanistan's cultural heritage.
-[uplifting music playing]
-[happy chattering]
[Stewart] When we had finished that,
we actually cut the ribbon on it.
So, we had a huge party with
all of our staff and all the government.
[rhythmic clapping]
[happy chattering, cheering]
And it was a real moment.
[rhythmic clapping continues]
The neighborhood was just so beautiful.
His Majesty has always talked about
these livable cities
where you have all the bits that make up
community life right near you.
People living, working, worshiping,
getting their health care, getting their
education, all within one community.
[rapid gunfire]
[panicked shouting]
[Winslet] For the international alliance,
keeping the peace in Afghanistan
proved elusive.
[solemn music playing]
And in 2021, the last remaining
foreign troops pulled out.
[reporter] The Taliban is now
in control of Afghanistan.
Western countries are scrambling
to get their people out.
There's huge uncertainty as well
for the aid agencies
upon whom so many Afghans rely.

[Stewart] It has been very important
that we stayed.
I'm here to be in this place
and work with the people of this place
and just deal with the messy reality
that is before you.
[low conversation]
You can have
an unbelievable impact if you engage,
if you stay.
[upbeat music playing]
[Winslet] Because of their contributions
to health care and Afghan heritage,
the charity has been allowed
to continue working.
And this means that tens of thousands
of Afghan women still have jobs
and access to health care.

[Stewart] The world is becoming
increasingly more gray
and less clear.
More places are in conflict.
How do we deal with it?
[bird calling in distance]
What resonates about Harmony is
that you are starting
from what is beautiful
and then you are building back again.
But that thing that you build
is fundamentally about
the goodness that is there.
And I think it works unbelievably well
the more difficult things get.
[music fades]
I mean, it's extraordinary,
when I first came 45 years ago,
what there used to be
and what there isn't now.
And I used to hear cuckoos,
which you never hear a single cuckoo now.
And, um... it was all that sort of thing.
And there used to be grasshoppers,
and, you know, the-the place used to hum.
And that wonderful sound,
you-you don't get much of that,
even though I've done my utmost
to, you know, make sure.
[leaves rustling]
[Brown] Are you worried about
the state of the world?
[King Charles III] Of course.
[chuckling]
It's been my main motivation
for a long, long time,
and you can see what's happening.
But, I mean, the underlying principles
behind what I call Harmony,
I think we need to follow
if we're going to somehow ensure
that this poor old planet
can support so... so many.
It's unlikely there's anywhere else.
[beep, radio static]
[ominous music playing]
[Winslet] Back in the 1980s,
environmental threats took a dark turn.
In our oceans, unprecedented underwater
heat waves bleached coral reefs.
Then a hole appeared in the layer of ozone
protecting Earth from solar radiation.
This was a new magnitude of danger,
threatening all life on Earth.
And scientists were discovering
we were the cause.
Again, Prince Charles was among the first
public figures to sound the alarm.
[music fades]
[Prince Charles] The ozone layer,
marine pollution,
acid rain, global warming:
these rather fateful phrases
have gradually become
part of our daily lives.
[solemn music playing]
[Skelly] This was the first time
that I became aware that if we carry on
pumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere,
we are going to create
this duvet cover that hovers over
the whole of the world
and keeps all the heat in.
[Winslet] In his documentary
Earth in Balance,
the Prince interviewed another
environmentalist also sounding the alarm.
[Al Gore] The central philosophical
error that we need to address and correct
is the assertion, for so long,
that we as human beings
are separate from the earth.
He and I immediately found
so much in common,
and we, uh...
I won't say plotted, because
you don't want to use that, uh,
word with, uh, royalty. [chuckles]
But we looked ahead together at how
humanity might rise to this challenge.
[upbeat music playing]
[Winslet] In 1991,
the Prince focused his efforts
on the first ever gathering of nations
to address
global environmental destruction.
[cameras clicking rapidly]
[reporter] In two days' time,
the formal business of the Earth Summit
will begin in Rio.
About 80 or so world leaders
are expected to gather there
to discuss a blueprint
for environmental protection.
[Juniper] In the run-up to the summit,
the Prince of Wales hosted
a gathering of leaders,
including the president of Brazil
at the time,
on board the Royal Yacht Britannia,
in order to lean in
to the massive challenges
that would be on the table.
[Cadman] Bringing people and places
together all the time,
he's very good at this.
He gathers. He gathers. [laughs]
[Fawcett] He is what I would call
the world's greatest convener.
I don't think there's anybody
who can convene people the way he can.
[King Charles III] That's what can really
make a difference, I think,
is just facilitating.
Which is what I've tried to do endlessly,
uh, in order to see
that we could get a better result.
[reporter] Brazil's president
was the first of a dozen leaders today
to sign the climate treaty.
It's aimed at slowing down
the effects of global warming
and was drafted only after
long and bitter debate.
No sooner had the ink dried today
than the critics let fly.
This convention does not bind
a single industrialized country
even to freeze its carbon dioxide
emissions at present-day levels.
[Winslet] Not every goal was achieved,
but because of Rio,
we now have the Conference of Parties,
or COP,
meetings that have been held
internationally every year since 1995.
[upbeat music playing]
[George W. Bush] The process used
to bring nations together
to discuss our joint response
to climate change is an important one.
That is why I am committing
the United States of America
to develop an effective and science-based
response to the issue of global warming.
[Winslet] The Prince of Wales emerged
as a key figure,
making regular keynote speeches
despite cries from some
that he should take a back seat.
I just felt that this was the approach
that I was gonna stick to,
the course I'd set, and I wasn't
gonna be diverted, I'm afraid.
The crisis of climate change
is far too urgent,
and discussion simply isn't enough.
It just cannot be "business as usual."
The climate crisis is the mirror
in which we see reflected
the combined ecological impact
of our industrialized age.
We cannot be anything less, uh,
than courageous and revolutionary
in our approach to tackling
climate change.
[Skelly] Like a lot of people,
I think it's fair to say
he gets very frustrated
that so little has happened
despite all of this talking
that's gone on.
Now, I have dedicated, uh, much of my life
to the restoration of harmony
between humanity, nature
and the environment.
Quite frankly, it has been
a bit of an uphill struggle.
We're very clear,
from the climate science, uh, perspective,
about the scale of emissions
and the rate of emissions reductions
that are required
if we are to limit
the worst impacts of climate change.
And the world currently
is simply not on that trajectory.
[solemn music playing]
[Shuckburgh] It's very easy
when you're undertaking climate modeling
using computer simulations,
that it's not your real future,
it's not your real children's future.
But it is.
And that worries me.
[King Charles III] It's rapidly
going backwards.
I've said that for the last 40 years,
but anyway, there we are.
Still, that's where I get a bit,
you know...
I can only do what I can do,
which is not very much.
Ah, anyway.
People don't seem to understand
it's not just climate change
that's the problem,
it's also biodiversity loss.
So, we're, we're actually destroying
our means of survival,
all the time.
So, to put that back together again
is possible,
but we've got--
we should've been doing it long ago.
We've got to do it as fast as we can now.
-[crowd chatter]
-[whistles blowing]
[upbeat music playing]
[Gore] I am confident that
we're going to win this struggle, uh,
because I see it in the context of, uh,
a series of other morally-based,
uh, struggles.
The Civil Rights Movement,
the antislavery movement,
women's suffrage,
the right of women to vote.
And in all of those movements,
there were periods when the advocates
felt genuine despair.
But when the underbrush was cleared away
and the central issue was revealed
as a choice between right and wrong,
then at a very deep level,
the outcome became foreordained.
And we are very close to that point now
on climate.

[music ends]
[Winslet] Back in the early 2000s,
the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis
famously overlapped in a single issue
that grabbed headlines:
the decimation of the world's rainforests.
[ominous music playing]
The destruction goes on
at a truly terrifying pace.
Somehow, we have to find ways
of putting a price on the forests
which makes them
more valuable alive than dead.
[music fades]
[Winslet] In search of solutions,
the King visited several
Commonwealth countries, including Guyana.
Located on the northern border
of the Amazon,
Guyana is covered in a rainforest
almost the size of the United Kingdom.
[animals calling]
But at the time, the country was also
amongst the poorest on Earth
and heavily in debt.
[children chattering playfully]
[Juniper] For a country like Guyana,
what do you do in order to be able
to provide your citizens
with homes, with education,
with energy security,
taken for granted in the West.
Do you cut down your forest
or do you find a different way
whereby you can keep the forest
at the same time as enabling your citizens
to have a better lifestyle?
One of the big interventions
that occurred in 2007
was the announcement
by the government of Norway
to put millions of dollars
into rainforest conservation.
Paying Guyana to be able
to improve its social well-being
without having to cut down its forest.
And the person sitting between the two
was King Charles.
[Fawcett] Here's a man
who has thought his entire life,
"What can I do?"
went about trying to do it,
went about building coalitions
for people to help him do it
and then bloody well did it.
That's a lesson for all of us.
[gentle music playing]
[Winslet] Today, thanks to the efforts
of Norway and the King,
Guyana has one of the lowest
deforestation rates on Earth.
The King's Foundation has been studying
why the forest is
worth more alive than dead.
[Sadinsky laughing] Wow.
[Marc 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 guns
for a very long time,
it's King Charles
with his idea of Harmony.
[Prince Charles] It is possible
in terms of-of the future
to arrive at some sort of harmony
or balance between man and, and nature.
[Winslet] Of course,
Harmony has never been about one man.
Harmony has always been about
the relationships that we all share.
We've witnessed the power of Harmony
to heal, to inspire.
And even in difficult circumstances,
Harmony brings hope.
[happy chattering]
All of us have been gifted
this incredible relationship with nature.
Which means, in the end,
any one of us can find Harmony.
[birds squawking]
[King Charles III] Maybe,
by the time I shuffle off
this mortal coil,
there might be a little bit more awareness
of the need to bring things
back together again.
Anyway.
[Brown] Thank you so much, Your Majesty.
Got to get the music right.
-[laughter]
-In the background.
[birds chirping]
[Brown] Thank you. Thank you.
We appreciate it. Thanks so much.
Thank you very much...
I hope you give him a stiff drink.
[laughter]
[King Charles III] Thank you, thank you.
-[woman] Thank you, sir.
-See you soon, I hope, somewhere.
[birds chirping]
[upbeat music playing]
We respect you, Your Highness,
because as that film showed,
uh, you believe in having a respect
and reverence for nature,
and I think that's marvelous in a time
where we, we have to worry about
the environment.
I went to Clarence House
to meet His Royal Highness.
They said, "His Royal Highness,
he's, he's in the greenhouse."
And I went there and there he was,
surrounded by the delphiniums
and the begonias and the tulips,
and he was talking to them.
-He was talking to them.
-[audience laughing]
It's... it is not, um, a rumor.
He was actually talking to them.
And I just, I felt so humbled
to watch him talk.
And I-I just said,
"I don't mean to interrupt,"
and one of the delphiniums said,
"Please do, for God's sake.
-[laughter]
-No clue what he's saying.
For years. No clue."
[upbeat music playing]
[man] Prince Charles even joked
when asked to present press awards.
I rather feel that, uh, being here today
is, uh, rather like asking a pheasant
to award the prizes to the best shot.
[laughter]
[applause]
-And speaking...
-[laughter]
...speaking as a pheasant,
with an "H,"
you have been wonderfully sporting shots.

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]