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Yvon Chouinard, founder of the outdoor clothing company Patagonia. Chouinard, 83, and his family have donated the entire $3bn firm to a charitable foundation, which will use the $100m in yearly profits to combat climate change. It was being listed as a billionaire in Forbes magazine that “really pissed me off”, he tells The New York Times, and set the plan in motion.

King Charles is Britain’s “menswear monarch”, says Samuel Hine in GQ. His longstanding love of clothes is not only a source of pride for traditional firms like shirtmaker Turnbull & Asser and shoemaker John Lobb, “who undergird London’s status as a fashion capital”. The King has also long exemplified an approach to dressing, now very much in vogue, that minimises waste. Charles has a tweed Anderson & Sheppard coat he’s worn in four separate decades; he turned up at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding in a morning coat he first wore in 1984.

I’m not so sure King Charles should give up the campaigning he did as Prince of Wales, says Andrew Marr in The New Statesman. The government is full of ministers with a record of hostility to “green crap”. Like most of the rest of us, the King feels differently: he was one of the first to recognise the climate crisis as the “central question facing mankind”. Not being an elected politician, he can afford to think in “centuries rather than electoral cycles”. And when he “gets his teeth into something”, friends of his tell me, he doesn’t let go. An “injection of long-termism” by the King into our politics could be a powerful argument for monarchy.

Agatha Christie has sold more than two billion books, says Lucy Worsley in the FT – “more – as the cliché goes – than any others save Shakespeare and The Bible”. In researching a biography of her, I’ve become convinced that the First World War was the “vital experience” that made her a detective novelist to begin with. Born into an upper-middle-class family in the then-elegant seaside resort of Torquay, she grew up familiar with the quintessential Christie setting: the country house. “Of course there had been no question of her working.” She describes her girlhood as spent simply “waiting for The Man”

Jean-Luc Godard, the revolutionary French New Wave film director who died aged 91 this week, was not always the easiest man to work with. Shortly before filming began on his first feature, Breathless, he scrapped the entire screenplay, forcing him to write scenes on the hoof while the camera was rolling. Union rules stipulated he employ a make-up artist, but he forbade her from applying any; the script supervisor was physically locked out of the shoot so she couldn’t keep track of continuity. Godard’s volcanic temper eventually landed him with a court case after he slapped a 69-year-old employee of one of his producers.