WINDSOR, England — King Charles III is clearly desirous about his legacy.

In his new movie, “Discovering Concord: A King’s Imaginative and prescient,” Charles delivers a easy message — that humanity wants to revive the steadiness between man and nature if it hopes to resolve world warming and most of the different issues dealing with the world as we speak. Serving to unfold that gospel, he hopes, will probably be his legacy.

“All of it boils right down to the truth that we are literally nature ourselves, we’re part of it, not aside from it, which is absolutely how issues are being offered for therefore lengthy,’’ Charles says within the closing moments of the documentary earlier than turning to Shakespeare. “Possibly, by the point I shuffle off this mortal coil, there is likely to be a bit extra consciousness … of the necessity to carry issues again collectively once more.’’

Charles and Amazon Prime unveiled the movie on Wednesday at Windsor Fortress, close to London, forward of a red-carpet premiere attended by celebrities together with Kate Winslet, who narrates the movie.

The movie spells out the king’s philosophy that people will solely thrive in the event that they study to work with nature, not towards it, as a result of they’re as a lot part of the pure world as animals, bugs and timber. Charles first addressed these concepts in his 2010 guide “Concord: A New Method of Taking a look at Our World.”

It additionally provides him the prospect to confront those that have lampooned him as a dilettante flitting aimlessly from one trigger to a different with no rhyme or purpose. Quite the opposite, the movie argues, local weather change, city planning, sustainable agriculture, conventional crafts and fostering understanding between religions — causes to which the king has devoted a lot of his grownup life — are inter-related points that should be handled to create sustainable communities.

Charles, 77, was “haunted” by press protection that mocked him for a 1986 TV interview during which he stated he talked to his crops, Winslet says within the narration, accompanied by photographs of crucial newspaper headlines.

“These criticisms actually upset him. He received handled very unfairly, seen very unfairly, and people of us that knew him higher had been fairly upset by that,’’ Ian Skelly, co-author of the king’s 2010 guide. “It was tough to know the way to reply, however I actually felt for him.”

Charles has been campaigning on environmental points since no less than 1971 when he gave his first speech on conservation whereas nonetheless an undergraduate on the College of Cambridge. He has since began a profitable natural meals agency and helped construct a sustainable village in western England.

Environmentalist Tony Juniper, who labored with the king on each the movie and guide, believes the king is uniquely certified to ship his message as a result of he started talking out on environmental points lengthy earlier than they had been fashionable and since he continues to take action, at the same time as different world leaders shun environmental safety in favor of vitality safety and financial progress.

“I do really feel as if the world is now hungry for some new large concepts,’’ Juniper stated. “And I do hope that a kind of large concepts that folks wish to think about as we face into these a number of challenges of the 2020s and past is the concept of concord.”

Whereas Charles first addressed the concept of concord 16 years in the past, he’s returning to the subject partly as a result of the expansion of streaming platforms like Amazon Prime give him an opportunity to succeed in new audiences worldwide.

However the king additionally needs to shift the main focus again to a difficulty he hopes will outline his legacy after two years during which the media, and the general public, had been distracted by different issues, stated Ed Owens, creator of “After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?”

First there was a most cancers analysis, which pressured him to step away from public duties for a number of months in early 2024 and raised nagging questions on his well being. Then there have been the persevering with tensions along with his youthful son, Prince Harry, and the scandal surrounding his brother Andrew’s hyperlinks to the convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.

With Charles apparently previous the worst of his most cancers remedy and Andrew stripped of his royal titles, now stands out as the time to show the web page.

“He needs to set out what his legacy is as a monarch — as a big member of this Windsor household for occurring 80 years,’’ Owens stated. “That is about him giving us a transparent indication of what he thinks issues when it comes to his public picture and persona, what he needs us to remove from him as his defining traits.”

The documentary — “Discovering Concord: A King’s Imaginative and prescient” — will probably be accessible on Amazon Prime from Feb. 6.