When Was The First Queen's Christmas Speech On Television?
The Queen's Television and Radio Christmas Message and Speech History and Trivia
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II made the first televised speech to Britain in 1957 from a study at Sandringham
House. She sat at the same desk on the same chair as her father, King George VI, and his father King George V,
had sat at to broadcast their radio speeches. Her first radio speech was in 1952.
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First UK Monarch Radio Christmas Speech
Since 1932 the Monarch has broadcast to the UK Nation and Commonwealth Countries. The first was King George V who
broadcasted on the radio, though it would have been more popularly known as the wireless. King George V read the words of poet Rudyard Kipling when he said:
"I speak to you now from my home and from my heart to you all, to all my peoples throughout the Empire."
The TV tradition continues each year, on Christmas Day at 3 pm. She always includes a message to her armed forces
and highlights the events of the year. For 2006 the Queen broadcast a separate Queen's speech to her armed forces on Christmas Eve because of their exceptional
year of duty in places like Iraq and Afghanistan where over 60 British troops had died in active service.
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The 25th December speeches used to be broadcasted live until 1960 when they were thereafter pre recorded.
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King Edward VIII never had the chance to broadcast or record a Christmas speech because he abdicated on
the 10th December 1936. He abdicated because he fell in love with married woman Wallace Simpson. After her divorce,
they married and he was made the Duke of Windsor.
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The Year There Was No Christmas Speech By The Queen
In 1969 there was no Queen's Christmas message on Christmas Day. There had been a documentary in television
called Royal Family by director Richard Cawston. The Queen felt there had been enough Royal Family exposure on
TV that year. Instead the BBC repeated one of the documentary episodes. As well as the Queen it featured
Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, Princess Anne and Prince Edward.
There was also no Queen's Christmas speech in 1959 because Her Majesty was carrying her first child, Prince Charles. It was thought that it was not appropriate to show a pregnant Queen during the Christmas day message.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s the Queen allowed clips of her family to be shown and Prince Charles made his first television appearance in 1961 on the Queen’s Christmas message.
The first Queen’s Christmas speech to be broadcast in colour was on the 25 December 1967. The Queen wore a beautiful yellow outfit.
In 1997 the BBC lost the monopoly to be the only channel to broadcast the Queen's Christmas Speech and Message. ITV
broadcasted it for the first time on channel 3. It was produced by Independent Television News.
The First Internet Queens Christmas Speech
The first Queen's speech to be broadcast on the Internet was in 1998.
The First Podcast Queens Christmas Speech
2006 saw the first time that the broadcast of the Queen's Christmas Speech was released to download as a podcast.
Queens Speech YouTube
Christmas Day 2007 marked the first time that the Queens speech and the Queens Christmas message
was placed on the website YouTube. The 25 December 07 also marked the second time that the Queen’s speech was available as a podcast. The Queens Speech on YouTube was
released at the same time as the televised broadcast of the Queens Speech.
The Queens speech on You Tube is on a special Royal Channel at the url www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel where there is also archived Queens speeches and clips of the Royal Family.
Channel Four Alternative Christmas Speech
Channel 4 have been broadcasting an alternative Christmas Message to the Queens Christmas message each year since 1993. The first one was presented
by Quentin Crisp and has a new guest presenter each year. These have included Jamie Oliver, Sharon Osbourne, Ali G
and even Marge Simpson from The Simpsons cartoon series!
The 2006 Alternative Christmas Message on Channel 4 was a yuletide address by Khadija, a British Muslim woman who has been wearing the niqab veil for a decade. It
was broadcast at 3pm.
The 2007 Alternative Christmas Message on Channel 4 was devoted to the Armed Forces and how serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has affected soldiers and their families.
Trivia About The Queen's Speech
The Queen reads from an autocue and does the broadcast in one take.
The Queen ends each Christmas broadcast by wishing everyone a Merry Day.
Viewing figures still remain high for the Queen's Christmas Speech - over 9 million on 25 December 2005.
The Queen's Christmas speech for Xmas 2007 started with the first Queen's speech broadcast from 1957 before cutting to the Queen in 2007 watching her
Christmas day message clips on a flat screen TV. The Queen then talked about caring for the vulnerable and those excluded from society and thanking the troops for
their work in the Armed Forces, especially the sacrifice of those in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 2007 Queens Christmas message was filmed from the 1844 room at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty wore an apricot coloured dress.
Lights! Camera! The Queen!
After the 2007 Christmas message from Her Majesty The Queen ITV broadcast a program called Lights! Camera! The Queen! to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
the Queen's Christmas message where famous people, newspaper editors and journalists talked about fifty years of the Queen's Christmas speech. These included the newsreader Sir Trevor Macdonald and former Sun newspaper editor Kelvin MacKenzie.
Lights Camera The Queen was narrated by the actress Barbara Flynn.
Clips from Lights! Camera! The Queen! included highlights of previous Christmas messages from which ITV had exclusive access to 50 years of Queen’s speeches recordings.
Celebrities who recalled their memories of the Queen’s speeches included TV celebrity and lifestyle guru Linda Barker who gave her opinion on the Queen’s fashion over the decades.
His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, gave a rare TV interview where he talked about what his mother’s speech means to the Royal household. HRH The Duke of York also described how the Royal family spend their day on Christmas.
Clips from the Queen’s Christmas speeches included key times in the life of the Monarch Queen Elizabeth II such as the Falklands War, the Queen Mother’s 80th birthday celebrations, the year of the Windsor fire, the break ups of her son’s marriages and the death of Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales.