In this season of Advent, Royal Central is looking at different royal Christmas Broadcasts from the last century in the lead up to Christmas. While many broadcasts have had to acknowledge difficult events, some were focused on the positive.
Queen Elizabeth II’s 2012 Christmas Day address was one of the most joyful in her reign. Not only did London host the 2012 Olympic Games in July, Queen…
Each of the four monarchs who have given Christmas addresses have had their own approach. Today we see a monarch’s love for the environment.Â
King Charles III gave his second annual Royal Christmas Broadcast in 2023.
Notably, His Majesty’s coronation was…
A Christmas address that brought people together in a time apart
3rd December 2024
It was one of the most anticipated and historic speeches of a truly historic reign. On Christmas Day 2020, millions listened as Queen Elizabeth II spoke at the most difficult of times.
The late Queen had seen Great Britain and the Commonwealth through many of the major…
The peacetime Christmas broadcast that brought a nation together
2nd December 2024
The Christmas broadcast is a much loved part of the festive celebrations. And some have marked moments in history. King George VI only reigned for little over fifteen years but he led his subjects through several difficult years. In 1945, he was able to truly celebrate on Christmas Day.Â
In 1945, King George made two addresses to his subjects. The first was on VE Day with his address broadcast…
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…
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 (BBC) Empire Service.
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“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…
