{"id":411220,"date":"2026-02-06T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411220\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:41:11","slug":"a-kings-vision-review-charless-film-is-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411220\/","title":{"rendered":"a King\u2019s Vision review \u2014 Charles\u2019s film is from the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Some might say that the timing of the launch of King Charles\u2019s documentary was unfortunate. Here is a serious film with a serious message \u2014 a heartfelt plea from Charles for humanity to mend its broken relationship with nature and save the planet. Yet it landed in the same week that the Epstein files belched out a photograph of his buffoonish brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor barefoot and on all fours over a prone young woman. It might have been done in jest, but it made him look like a creepy uncle and reportedly got him booted out of Royal Lodge earlier than planned and \u201cunder the cover of darkness\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">This was bad. But also in the news we read that one of the UK\u2019s worst illegal waste tips, in Bickershaw, Wigan, is on land partially owned by\u2026 well, this is awkward\u2026 the Duchy of Lancaster, the King\u2019s private estate. So, yes, the timing of a film about the environment could have been happier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">But could these tawdry Epstein revelations help Charles? They do at least underscore in neon lights the canyon-sized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/royal-family\/article\/disgraced-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-epstein-files-king-charles-jf6k3zf3w\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">difference between him and Andrew<\/a>. Although brothers, they are like chalk and cheese, organic soil tiller versus playboy vulgarian, homme s\u00e9rieux versus clown-shoed dimwit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Charles worries about nature, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/royal-family\/article\/andrew-windsor-photo-epstein-royal-lodge-exit-3lkz0brxb\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew worries about himself<\/a>. Could you imagine Andrew cooing to his chickens, and keeping them in a coop called Cluckingham Palace, as Charles does? Could you imagine him standing in a field looking mildly heartbroken that he doesn\u2019t hear cuckoos and grasshoppers any more, as we see Charles doing? Given the allegations, one imagines the only birds for whom Andrew would be scanning the horizon would be ones wearing skinny jeans and fake smiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Anyway, after watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/royal-family\/article\/king-charles-news-celebrity-8z0grqt6f\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finding Harmony: A King\u2019s Vision<\/a> you are left in no doubt of the utter sincerity of Charles\u2019s concern for nature and our disconnect from it. We are a part of nature, not apart from it, is the mantra. <\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Charles presents as something of a Cassandra figure. He has been warning the world about the environment, pesticides, global warming and so on for decades, but originally people dismissed him as a batty, bumbling eccentric or a pseudo hippy, especially in the 1980s when he admitted that he talked to his plants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/royal-family\/article\/king-wants-to-improve-environment-before-he-shuffles-off-mortal-coil-njlsdqm23\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King Charles: I must help the planet before I die<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">\u201cA-loon with his worms\u201d read one headline shown in the film. Another newspaper wrote, \u201cThe Prince of Wales is going completely off his trolley.\u201d We see him sitting alone on a red velvet chair before a large screen watching his own film, his own life, these headlines looming into view. <\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">The narrator Kate Winslet tells us that what was once considered \u201ccrazy now seems like common sense\u201d. It seems to give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/topic\/king-charles-iii\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles<\/a> little satisfaction to have been right. He is frustrated that things have moved so slowly and with such little sense of urgency. \u201cI can only do what I can do, which is not very much. Aaah, anyway\u2026\u201d he sighs, wistfully.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prince Charles walking in the gardens of Highgrove House.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\/93fa5349-b210-4eb8-8ad0-89acf737af83.jpg\" class=\"responsive-sc-1nnon4d-0 bAbKns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Charles at Highgrove House in 1986<\/p>\n<p>TIM GRAHAM PHOTO LIBRARY\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Still, at least we learn that he finds the \u201cDuke of York\u201d useful for something \u2014 namely, baked potatoes. Alas, Charles wasn\u2019t talking about his brother\u2019s culinary skills, or about Andrew and his former title at all. He was referring to red Duke of York potatoes, which he said were ideal for making nice, crispy skins. Then he gave a little snigger. Was this all deliberate mischief-making? A not-so-coded dig? Maybe it was all perfectly innocent, but I would like to think not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/culture\/tv-radio\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more TV reviews, guides about what to watch and interviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">The repetition of the word \u201charmony\u201d begins to sound a little cultish and some might see irony in the programme being on Prime Video, thus linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/topic\/jeff-bezos\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bezos of Amazon<\/a> fame, whose enthusiastic use of packaging has been a customer beef. But it is a decent, gentle film that Charles surely intended to be his historical document, a flag in the sand to say, \u201cLook, this is what I am about,\u201d to showcase his gravitas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">I do feel a little sorry for him that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/us\/news-today\/article\/former-prince-andrew-photos-epstein-files-new-pictures-qm6g22sv5\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew\u2019s Epstein-related escapades<\/a> have stolen the headlines and the thunder, especially since it is so important to Charles that that the film was given the first premiere to be held at a royal residence, namely Windsor Castle. So, in summary, nice film\u2026 shame about the brother.<br \/>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606<br \/>Prime Video<\/p>\n<p id=\"last-paragraph\" class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Love TV? 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