FORCE OF NATURE

With famous friends and loved ones by his side, King Charles celebrates his most personal project yet

- CARLI WHITWELL

Lights, camera... castle! For the first time in history, a royal residence was the setting of a film première. Joined by celebrity friends and supporters at Windsor Castle - as well as Hello! - King Charles and Queen Camilla rolled out the red carpet for Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision, His Majesty's documentary about sustainability.

The “deeply personal” project - narrated by Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet - showcases the monarch’s passion for nature and the future of the planet, but it also presents a different side of King Charles: the warm, charming and slightly self-deprecating man behind the monarch and his secret hopes.

Filmed across four continents and using archival footage, the 90-minute documentary is a collaboration between Charles’s charity, The King’s Foundation, and Prime Video (where it’s now streaming). It also takes us inside Highgrove, his private home in Gloucestershire, where we see the monarch pruning hedges, feeding chickens in a coop he calls Cluckingham Palace and revealing his penchant for baked potatoes - his favourite being the red Duke of York variety.

Welcoming the film crew inside for a series of candid interviews, King Charles shares his hope that all 240 countries where the film is streaming will unite to save the planet.

“We're actually destroying our means of survival all the time,” he points out. “To put that back together again is possible, but we should have been doing it long ago. We've got to do it as fast as we can now.