As we already discussed, Angelina Jolie took part in an ITV documentary about one of Queen Elizabeth’s environmental initiatives. The Queen’s Canopy is one of QEII’s special projects, encouraging forest conservation around the British Commonwealth, as well as a project to plant more trees around the world. The ITV documentary is called The Queen’s Green Planet, and it feels like Angelina Jolie has a significant role in it. Apparently, the documentary includes Angelina and her children planting trees in Namibia. Angelina also talks on-camera about what the Queen means to her.

Angelina Jolie embarks on her latest adventure in a new documentary — with an assist from none other than Queen Elizabeth! In the ITV special The Queen’s Green Planet, Jolie visits Namibia with her six kids to highlight forest conservation in Africa.

“For us to come here and say to the children, ‘This is why it’s important to plant a tree,’ that’s the biggest message I can teach my kids, and it’s something that they’ve certainly learned from Her Majesty and her message,” the Oscar winner, 42, explains in The Queen’s Green Planet, which airs in the U.K. on April 16. The two women met in 2014, when Jolie received an honorary damehood from Queen Elizabeth, 91, at Buckingham Palace for services to U.K. foreign policy and her campaign to end sexual violence in war zones.

Speaking in the new documentary, Jolie says of her kids, “They ask me, ‘Why is it so important to her?’ You know when you sit up at night in a tent with your kids and they say, ‘Why does the Queen of England care about planting trees in Africa?’ What it comes down to is you say to the kids, ‘You know really, you don’t know her, you can’t understand all that it means to be a queen and all that. But you try to say, ‘You know she’s just this really lovely lady who really cares about people around the world, and she really cares about the future, and she wants your grandkids and her grandkids to be able to be running around, enjoying nature and other cultures, and the importance of other cultures.’ She thinks that really matters and I agree with her.”

As Jolie she watches her kids “trying their best to dig a hole,” she says in the film, “I bet they’re fighting over the biggest shovel. It says it all when you see the local tribe, the bushmen come in and their reaction to it. The trees affect the environment, the soil, the shade, the natural resources, the animals, the ecosystem — but also how it affects the local cultures. They live very dependent on every single plant and they use every single plant, and when certain trees, certain species disappear, that affects an entire culture and their way of life and they start to die out.”

[From People]

Honestly, I hope they follow up this documentary with a documentary about what it took for Angelina Jolie to sign on to this project. I want to know if the Queen was playing with her corgis and the idea just struck her: “That American girl with all the tattoos – let’s see if she wants to plant some trees somewhere!” And how is the call made? Does Buckingham Palace have Angelina’s direct number? Did the palace have to call William Hague because Hague had her direct line? This is what I want to know. As for what Angelina says here – it’s adorable. The kids fighting over who gets the big shovel, Angie-the-mom trying to explain why the Queen cares about trees, all of it.

Here are some additional clips of QEII. The sundial! The joke about Trump!

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