The King has expressed his frustration at humanity’s response to the climate crisis and does not want future generations left to deal with a “ghastly legacy of horror”.

Charles airs his concerns in a new ITV documentary in which broadcaster Steve Backshall recreates some of the memorable moments from the King’s 1975 trip to the Canadian Arctic, and highlights how the region is being affected by climate change.

The King also said it was “very peculiar” that on many topics the conclusions of scientists were seen as the “truth” but with climate change “it is not so apparently simple”.

Backshall visited Charles at Buckingham Palace to discuss the time when he dived under the ice, raced on a snowmobile, ate raw seal liver and rode on a dog sled, during his formative Canadian trek in April 19

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