Queen Elizabeth shared a very emotional speech on Christmas day in which she remembered her late husband, Prince Philip, who passed away back in April. The monarch remembered her husband’s “mischievous twinkle” in his eye and spoke movingly of him on the first Christmas she has spent without him. Here’s what you need to know.
The passing of Prince Philip meant that the Queen’s traditional Christmas message – broadcast to the nation and the Commonwealth as usual at 3 pm – was unusually personal. Queen Elizabeth II confessed that she misses her husband of 73 years while acknowledging that the holiday season “can be hard for those who have lost loved ones.”
Queen Elizabeth Shares Emotional Christmas Speech – Remembers ‘Mischievous Twinkle’ In Late Husband Prince Philip’s Eye
“His sense of service, intellectual curiosity, and capacity to squeeze the fun out of any situation was 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.”
She also spoke of how Covid had again meant “we can’t celebrate quite as we would have wished” but that people can still enjoy the “many happy traditions” of Christmas. The Queen said that families treasure the Christmas routines and listed the “singing of carols…decorating the tree, giving and receiving presents, or watching a favorite film where we already know the ending.”
The Queen recorded 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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