Nearly 25 years after her grandfather George V became the first to deliver a Christmas broadcast, Queen Elizabeth II would carry on the tradition and create history in her own way. Christmas 1957, The Queen’s Christmas broadcast was televised for the first time. During her message, she spoke on the tradition her late father, George VI passed on to her. She also addressed the nation from the…
Royal Christmas traditions have evolved through the centuries. Some are based in ancient history, others are ones that the family would create over time. Some are no longer and some have evolved into what we know a royal Christmas to be today.
In the 1800s, the…
Why a king had to wait for a shepherd before beginning one of the most famous Christmas traditions of all
5th December 2023
Every Christmas, families across the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth gather around their TVs to hear the monarch give their annual Christmas message. The tradition began with a radio broadcast in 1932 by King George V via the British Broadcasting Corporation’s…
“Dear old Sandringham, the place I love better than anywhere else in the world…” were the words which King George V used to describe the Norfolk retreat, beloved by four generations of the British Royal Family since 1862; it was a sentimentechoed by his son, King George VI who himself wrote it turn: “I have always been happy here, and I love the place.”
Both…
