She’s still got that golden touch. There’s a new report that says over nine million people tuned in to watch Queen Elizabeth deliver her Christmas speech this year. The Queen’s broadcast, which was about ten minutes long, was watched by over 7.4 million people on the BBC and another 1.7 million people on the ITV network. That, of course, isn’t counting the millions of people who tuned in from abroad, too. Here’s what you need to know.
The monarch reflected on a year of personal grief in her message, saying there was “one familiar laugh missing” as she acknowledged the death of her husband the Duke of Edinburgh amid the continuing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Queen Elizabeth also confessed to missing him but felt “his presence” as she prepared for the holiday season.
Over Nine Million People Tuned In To Watch Queen Elizabeth’s Christmas Speech
“His sense of service, intellectual curiosity and capacity to squeeze fun out of any situation were all irrepressible,” the 95-year-old Monarch said in her annual speech. “That mischievous, enquiring twinkle was as bright at the end as when I first set eyes on him.”
What’s more, Queen Elizabeth also spoke about her late husband’s early interest in conservation and noted that “pioneering work has been taken on and magnified by our eldest son Charles and his eldest son William – admirably supported by Camilla and Catherine – most recently at the COP climate change summit in Glasgow.”
Queen Elizabeth filmed her message in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, where on the table in front of her was a solitary photograph of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in a frame. It’s also been noted that the Queen wore the same brooch – a sapphire and chrysanthemum – which she wore with her late husband in the photos from 1947 and 2007.
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