Elizabeth II is about to experience one of the dates marked in red on her calendar due to its importance: the Christmas speech, which will be broadcast next Friday, December 25 at 3 p.m. (local English time). An appointment that arrives during the monarch’s saddest holidays, since she has had to give up spending them in Sandringham, as has been the tradition for more than 30 years, to live them with the Duke of Edinburgh at Windsor Castle. Thus, the members of the British royal family will not meet and will have to follow this special moment separately.
After a very complicated 2020, Queen Elizabeth II faces a major challenge, since she will have to give a difficult speech marked by the pandemic and the Megxit, which became effective on March 31. For this reason, the monarch has been personally in charge of writing an “emotional and personal” speech that reaches the home of all English people.
According to the royal historian Harry Mount to The Telegraph, the monarch will feel “the anguish” of having had to cancel Christmas due to the new strain of the coronavirus, but will “encourage” the entire nation in her speech. “With the new Level 4 restrictions, this Christmas will be more difficult than any other since the war,” he assured, so Queen Elizabeth II will be up to the task.
This, also, will be the second great speech that Queen Elizabeth II of this 2020. The monarch was in front of the cameras on April 5 to thank the entire nation for strictly following the measures against the pandemic. “We must console ourselves that even if we have more to bear, better days will come: we will be with our friends again, we will be with our families, we will meet again,” he said then. A message of optimism that he is sure to repeat in his Christmas speech.
