{"id":6365,"date":"2025-12-23T22:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:56:25","slug":"kings-christmas-speech-to-come-from-westminster-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6365","title":{"rendered":"King’s Christmas speech to come from Westminster Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sean Coughlan<\/span>Royal correspondent<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The King will give the traditional message from the Abbey’s Lady Chapel<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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This year’s Christmas message from King Charles III will be delivered from Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n

This traditional speech, filmed in the Lady Chapel of the medieval church in central London, follows his “good news” earlier this month about responding well to cancer treatment.<\/p>\n

The King is expected to talk about the “pilgrimage” of life, and the lessons it can teach about the issues of the day, in a message broadcast at 15.00 on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

Last year the speech was given in the Fitzrovia Chapel, which once served hospital staff, and was a symbolic location for a message focusing on the King’s thanks for health workers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The King was able to re-use the Christmas trees from Catherine’s carol concert<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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This year’s setting is below the Lady Chapel’s famous medieval vaulted ceiling, in a chapel where 15 previous kings and queens are buried, including Elizabeth I, Mary I and Charles II.<\/p>\n

It also means that for a second year the Christmas message won’t be delivered from behind a desk inside a palace.<\/p>\n

The King will be seen standing in front of Christmas trees which were brought to decorate the Abbey for the Princess of Wales’s carol concert held earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Westminster Abbey was also the venue for the King’s recent Advent service<\/a>, where there were prayers and music from different Christian traditions, including Anglican, Catholic and Orthodox.<\/p>\n

There was a display of icons in the Abbey for that service – and when the King visited Pope Leo earlier this year he gave him an icon of St Edward the Confessor, a saint with strong connections to Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n

The Advent service and the trip to the Vatican had reflected one of the King’s longstanding causes – his efforts to build bridges between people of different faiths and backgrounds.<\/p>\n

The tradition of an annual Christmas broadcast from the monarch, looking back on the year and addressing current events, dates back to 1932, when George V delivered a speech on the radio.<\/p>\n

The first televised Christmas speech was delivered by Elizabeth II in 1957. It’s usually among the most-watched programmes on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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