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A Christmas speech of pride and joy

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…
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The peacetime Christmas broadcast that brought a nation together

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.  In 1945, King George made two addresses to his subjects. The first was on VE Day with his address broadcast…
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A very Windsor Christmas

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…
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Why a king had to wait for a shepherd before beginning one of the most famous Christmas traditions of all

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. [getty src=”463993185″ width=”509″ height=”594&#8243…
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