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Saturday, 22 December 2007

Her Majesty's First Christmas Broadcast

The Queen made her first Christmas Day Broadcast to the peoples of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth from Sandringham House, Norfolk, 1952.

Her Majesty asked that people pray for her on the day on her coronation, which was to come the following year - on 2 June, 1953 - and to ask God to give her wisdom and strength, "...that I may faithfully serve Him and you, all the days of my life".

Little remembered is that in the following year, the Queen made her Christmas Broadcast from Government House in Auckland, New Zealand.

Alas Christmas 1953 was the first and only time that the Royal Christmas Broadcast has been done outside the United Kingdom.

Photo © Press Association

Posted by Tweedsmuir at 22:04

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