Granted rare access to Prince Charles at home, The Australian Financial Review Magazine hears our future king's thoughts on how the fashion industry needs to tackle its greatest challenge: sustainability.

"By the sounds of it, we need to give everything a bit of a kick about," says His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, by way of encouraging those joining him in a committee meeting for the Campaign for Wool, which is taking place around the dining room table at Clarence House, his London home. I'm perched to one side on a Georgian straight-backed chair, eavesdropping and observing the prince at work.