• Christmas message (or The Queen's Christmas message in a queen's reign, formally as His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, and informally as the Royal Christmas...
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  • Christmas message is a message broadcast by Channel 4 since 1993, as a sometimes humorous and sometimes serious alternative to the traditional Royal Christmas...
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  • started being broadcast in 1966. The Royal Christmas Message (1957–1968, 1970 – present). Note: The Royal Christmas message has been read as far back as King...
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    outside the annual Royal Christmas Message and the Commonwealth Day Message, only take place at times of significant national or royal events. British monarchs...
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    on Christmas Day, a rule that also applies on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. TVNZ 1 broadcasts the Royal Christmas Message at 6:50 pm. The message has...
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    releases the Royal Christmas Message which is alternatively broadcast on Christmas Day throughout the UK and the Commonwealth. Royal Christmas Message "New Year...
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  • Sunday arrangements apply. The Royal Christmas Message is broadcast on the Astra and IRN1 channel at 15:00 on Christmas Day. There is no news bulletin...
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  • Prinsjesdag in the Netherlands A Christmas message by the reigning monarch, including the Royal Christmas Message in the UK the Christmas Eve National Speech in...
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    by the British Constitution. The term may also refer to the role of the royal family within the UK's broader political structure. The monarch since 8...
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  • sociology, best known for being quoted by King George VI in his Royal Christmas Message of 1939. Haskins was born at 2 Kingswood Hill, Oldland, South Gloucestershire...
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    assent), national (delivering the Speech from the Throne and the Royal Christmas Message, distributing honours, decorations, and medals, and partaking in Remembrance...
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    in his Royal Christmas message of 1939. The ashes of George's younger daughter, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, were placed in the royal vault...
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    English Monarchs website Recording of King George V giving the first Royal Christmas Message from Sandringham in 1932 Pathé News footage of the transportation...
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  • United Kingdom Royal Christmas Message, broadcast made by the sovereign of the Commonwealth realms to the Commonwealth of Nations each Christmas Special address...
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  • there was no televised Royal Christmas Message in 1969, with a repeat of the film shown simultaneously on BBC1 and BBC2 on Christmas Day instead. Queen Elizabeth...
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  • Address to the Federal Assembly Christmas Eve National Speech Prime Minister's New Year Message Royal Christmas Message Special address by the British...
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  • The King's Christmas Speech, formally known as His Majesty The King's Christmas Message (Spanish: Mensaje de Navidad de S.M. el Rey) is a broadcast by...
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    nutmeg. Christmas cards are illustrated messages of greeting exchanged between friends and family members during the weeks preceding Christmas Day. The...
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  • would look at the carnage caused by COVID-19 and see an opportunity". The message was that "Conservatives want to bring back economic certainty" while Liberals...
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    give Britain's 2013 "Alternative Christmas Message", Channel 4's non-establishment parallel to the Royal Christmas Message by Queen Elizabeth II. In a short...
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    as part of the carriage parade with her children, and as a member of the royal family waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. This was her first...
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    George V (category 20th-century Royal Marines personnel)
    to be suspicious of the Nazis. In 1932, George agreed to deliver a Royal Christmas speech on the radio, an event that became annual thereafter. He was...
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    The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each...
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    In modern heraldry, a royal cypher is a monogram or monogram-like device of a country's reigning sovereign, typically consisting of the initials of the...
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    canon for other reasons. Traditional Christmas carols include pieces such as z"Silent Night", "Gabriel's Message", "O Holy Night", "Down in Yon Forest"...
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    the Royal Australian Infantry Corps, Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Australian Engineers) carry the "royal" prefix. Members of the royal family...
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    Swan Upping at Cookham, by Stanley Spencer, oil on canvas, 1915–19 Royal fish Royal Swans The Case of Swans (1592) 7 Co. Rep. 15b "'Swan Upping' tradition...
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    Christmas pudding is sweet, dried-fruit pudding traditionally served as part of Christmas dinner in Britain and other countries to which the tradition...
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    Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus. Christmas Day is observed around the world...
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  • broadcasts his 1934 Royal Christmas Message, he explains to Bertie that the wireless will play a significant part in the role of the royal family, allowing...
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