A PLEA FOR THE PLANET

As a lifelong environmentalist, King Charles shares his powerful message on safeguarding the natural world

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King Charles has laid out the heartfelt legacy he hopes to leave behind when he dies in a new documentary called Finding Harmony: A King's Vision.

The monarch announced he is being treated for a form of cancer two years ago in February 2024. Now he's made a landmark documentary of his life's work using footage spanning 75 years, narrated by Kate Winslet. It explains his philosophy of harmony, which promotes working with nature, not against it.

"By the time I shuffle off this mortal coil, there might be a little more awareness of the need to bring things back together again," says the King, 77, as he urges viewers to protect planet Earth. He adds: "The underlying principles behind what I call harmony, I think, we need to follow if we are going to somehow ensure that this poor old planet can support so many. It's unlikely there is anywhere else."

Throughout his life, the King has deployed his soft power to unite world leaders on environmental issues, making regular keynote speeches at the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) event, which he has been instrumental in shaping. Via The King's Foundation, he has pioneered organic farming at Dumfries House and Highgrove, launched popular education programmes and created sustainable communities to transform lives.

Since he was a little boy, Charles has loved being outdoors. Cherished home videos show him frolicking in gardens with his mother Queen Elizabeth and her corgis, being playfully buried in sand with a young Princess Anne, leading ponies through meadows, clambering over rocks and fishing with his father Prince Philip. Later footage shows him casting off with young Prince Harry and looking through binoculars with Prince William when he was a boy.