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And when peace comes, remember it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place. As Princess Elizabeth, The Queen made her first public speech on 13 October 1940, with a radio address to the children of the Commonwealth, many of them living away from home due to war.
Dec 21, 2009 · Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret recorded their first ever broadcast in Windsor in 1940. By Emma Midgley. BBC Berkshire reporter. The Queen's speech is as much a part of Christmas as mince pies, tinsel and a turkey dinner. 2010 will see the 70th anniversary of the Queen's first ever broadcast from Windsor Castle, which was addressed to ...
On October 13, 1940, the young Princess Elizabeth, accompanied by her sister Princess Margaret, delivered an inspiring speech from Windsor Castle. The address was primarily targeted at the younger generation, many of whom had been evacuated from their homes to safeguard against Nazi raids. These children were scattered across the countryside or ...
Wartime Windsor. Princess Elizabeth’s first broadcast, 1940 ©. When the Second World War broke out at the beginning of September 1939, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, and her sister, Princess Margaret, became evacuees. Evacuees were children sent out of big cities – where air-raids were likely – to the safety of the ...
Jan 1, 2013 · King George VI and his family leave Buckingham Palace, 1939, to spend Christmas at their country house at Sandringham. Pictured are the King and his wife Queen Elizabeth, daughters Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Princess Elizabeth would become Queen Elizabeth upon the death of her father in 1952.
The end of that year was memorable for the first royal Christmas broadcast, made by a nervous George V and transmitted live from Sandringham to the Empire at 3.05pm on Christmas Day. As Princess Elizabeth listened, she could not know that her grandfather’s speech marked the birth of a great tradition that one day she would continue.
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Dec 23, 2021 · The Christmas Broadcast in 2020 saw The Queen speak of her great pride in the ‘quiet, indomitable’ spirit of those who have ‘risen magnificently’ to the challenges of 2020, adding that ‘we need life to go on’. This was the first Christmas Speech to be available on smart devices, like Amazon’s Alexa. The Queen has been awarded an ...
