A five-minute, 11-second clip was posted on YouTube and shared on a number of websites and social media accounts. It emerged as the Royal Family prepared for its annual Christmas Day service at the 92-year-old Queen's Sandringham country estate in Norfolk. Her Christmas broadcast is a traditional feature of the festive season where the head of state can express her thoughts about the past year. She has made a Christmas Day speech every year except in 1969, when she decided the royals had been on TV enough after an unprecedented family documentary. The Queen's grandfather, King George V, delivered the first royal Christmas broadcast live on the radio from Sandringham in 1932.

Source: Daily Mirror December 25, 2018 12:02 UTC