The monarch\u2019s new doc raises many questions. Why Amazon? Will it compete with Harry and Meghan \u2013 or Clarkson\u2019s Farm?<\/p>\n
So King Charles is working on a feature-length documentary<\/a> for Amazon Prime Video, which will apparently detail his philosophy on how to \u201ctransform people, places and ultimately the planet\u201d. Times have changed. Before, you waited years for a royal TV project \u2013 now they all come along at once.<\/p>\n The royal documentary of old was a rare event, eagerly looked forward to, cherished and lovingly analysed \u2013 by royalists at least \u2013 for years to come: think of the BBC and ITV\u2019s Royal Family in 1969<\/a>. Now they\u2019re ubiquitous, what with Harry and Meghan\u2019s Netflix programmes \u2013 including how to lay a dining table<\/a> in someone else\u2019s house in California by Meghan \u2013 not to mention Channel 5\u2019s endless Saturday night royal documentaries.<\/p>\n Stephen Bates is a former Guardian royal correspondent and author of Royalty Inc: Britain\u2019s Best-known Brand<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The monarch\u2019s new doc raises many questions. Why Amazon? Will it compete with Harry and Meghan \u2013 or Clarkson\u2019s Farm? So King Charles is working on a feature-length documentary for Amazon Prime Video, which will apparently detail his philosophy on how to \u201ctransform people, places and ultimately the planet\u201d. Times have changed. Before, you waited … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}