Stephen Bates

How well will Charles’s revolutionary vision translate to television?

So King Charles is working on a feature-length documentary for Amazon Prime Video, which will apparently detail his philosophy on how to “transform people, places and ultimately the planet”. Times have changed. Before, you waited years for a royal TV project – now they all come along at once. The royal documentary of old was a rare event, eagerly looked forward to, cherished and lovingly analysed – by royalists at least – for years to come: think of the BBC and ITV’s Royal Family in 1969. Now they’re ubiquitous, what with Harry and Meghan’s Netflix programmes – including how to lay a dining table in someone else’s house in California by Meghan. There now seem to be almost as many Windsors as Kardashians on screen, with shows ranging from the…

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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 14 February 2025

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