{"id":2201756,"date":"2025-12-16T19:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2201756"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:40:15","slug":"king-charles-on-his-dive-under-the-arctic-ice-half-a-century-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-charles-on-his-dive-under-the-arctic-ice-half-a-century-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles on his dive under the Arctic ice, half a century ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"tvoCm f85xC A8Lwr\" data-testid=\"embed-brightcove\">\n<div data-testid=\"player-overlay\"><picture class=\"cp_picture ZK-2G\" data-testid=\"poster-image\"><source type=\"image\/avif\" 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fill=\"white\"\/><\/svg><\/i><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\"><strong class=\"_1ATDh\">In late April 1975, the future king embarked on a royal tour like no other, ITV News&#8217; Sally Biddulph reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/topic\/the-king\"><span class=\"n6NlI\">King Charles<\/span><\/a> has been reflecting on a visit he made as a young prince to the Canadian Arctic half a century ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">He was speaking to the presenter and environmentalist Steve Backshall, who has <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2025-12-03\/king-charles-warns-of-ghastly-legacy-for-young-people-if-climate-action-fails\"><span class=\"n6NlI\">retraced the steps Charles took in 1975<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">In the documentary, which will be shown on ITV on Thursday, December 18, Backshall also completed a dive under the sea ice, just as the 26-year-old prince did 50 years earlier.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"cp_grid-legacy n1Jiz\" data-testid=\"inline-tile-list-container\">\n<article data-testid=\"tile-undefined\" class=\"_9ngZG cp_grid-legacy__item cp_width-legacy--one-half V42pZ\"\/>\n<article data-testid=\"tile-undefined\" class=\"_9ngZG cp_grid-legacy__item cp_width-legacy--one-half V42pZ\"\/><\/aside>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">As they watched the footage of a young Charles in a big red diving suit from 1975, the King joked: \u201cThank God I was younger in those days. I could never have survived now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The two men were discussing how much has changed in the region as a result of changes in climate and warming seas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">When he travelled to the north of Canada in the same frozen landscape Prince Charles saw, Backshall noted that the region is \u201cchanging faster than anywhere else on earth\u201d as a result of climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">\u201cIf it carries on like this,\u201d Backshall said, \u201call of this will be gone within a matter of decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">And King Charles agreed, telling the presenter: \u201cThat\u2019s the tragedy now, that it\u2019s all going so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\"><strong class=\"_1ATDh\">Subscribe free to<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" href=\"https:\/\/itvnews.substack.com\/\" data-testid=\"fecp-link-anchor\"><span class=\"n6NlI\"><strong class=\"_1ATDh\"> our weekly newsletter <\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong class=\"_1ATDh\">for exclusive and original coverage from ITV News. Direct to your inbox every Friday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">And as he reflected on his visit all those years ago, he said: \u201cI\u2019m very glad that I was able to see it and I just want others to be able to witness the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">In the 1970s, a young and single Prince Charles had started to warn about the damage humans were doing to the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">In those days, he was a lone voice on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The trek he took part in to Canada, a country in which today he is now head of state, formed part of his thinking about the importance of humans living in harmony with Mother Nature.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"A8Lwr mes-O\"><figcaption class=\"dQov1 uYUWj\" data-testid=\"captioned-picture-caption\">King Charles during his trip to the Canadian Arctic in 1975.<span class=\"_4iBj8\"> Credit: <!-- -->X\/@RoyalFamily<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">It also taught him to learn from local Inuit people about how best to live as part of the environment around them, rather than trying to live a life which is unconnected to their surroundings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">In 1975, the prince also put on an ice diving suit, so he could experience swimming in the freezing sea underneath a metre of thick ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">At the time, he joked with reporters and photographers when he emerged in his suit, which had been inflated with air for insulation. Charles pressed the deflate button and pretended to flop down like a toy doll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">\u201cI blew the thing up to see how far it could go,\u201d the King remembered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Backshall said to him that there was the \u201cslight air of the \u2018Teletubby\u2019\u201d about the footage they were watching together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The King does not let on whether or not he knows what a Teletubby is.<strong class=\"_1ATDh\"> <\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\"><strong class=\"_1ATDh\">The full documentary, Steve Backshall&#8217;s Royal Arctic Challenge, will be broadcast on ITV1 at 8.30pm on Thursday, December 18.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\"><strong class=\"_1ATDh\">This is the Talking Royals &#8211; our weekly podcast about the royal family, with ITV News Royal Editor <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/meet-the-team\/chris-ship\"><span class=\"n6NlI\"><strong class=\"_1ATDh\">Chris Ship<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong class=\"_1ATDh\"> and Producer<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/meet-the-team\/lizzie-robinson\"><span class=\"n6NlI\"><strong class=\"_1ATDh\"> Lizzie Robinson<\/strong><\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"leUUK\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=4266790&amp;playlist=show&amp;color=0B6472&amp;hide-playlist-images=true\" title=\"Podcast playlist embed\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.itv.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play Brightcove video In late April 1975, the future king embarked on a royal tour like no other, ITV News&#8217; Sally Biddulph reports King Charles has been reflecting on a visit he made as a young prince to the Canadian Arctic half a century ago. 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