How the Queen used TV to revolutionise monarchy and reach the British people
It is poignant to reflect after her death that the Queen’s final Christmas speech last year was one of her saddest and most personal — a tribute to her belovedTwenty-five years ago my grandfather broadcast the first of these Christmas messages.
The trouble is caused by unthinking people who carelessly throw away ageless ideals as if they were old and outworn machinery. I believe in our qualities and in our strength, I believe that together we can set an example to the world which will encourage upright people everywhere.Today we need a special kind of courage, not the kind needed in battle but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest.
I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. “Though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am.