As every year, faithful to the tradition which has imposed itself, Elizabeth II must speak on television for a speech – recorded last week according to the BBC – broadcast for Christmas this Friday, December 24. The monarch, now 95, is experiencing the holiday for the first time without the man in her life, her late husband Prince Philip. But it’s still in her heart, her mind and even … in her look.
Elizabeth II, who will spend Christmas exceptionally in Windsor rather than in Sandrigham, has therefore recorded her speech which will undoubtedly be one of the most personal of her long reign; she ascended to the throne of England in February 1952! Very elegant, in a red dress and pearl necklace, the sovereign took her place behind an office in the White Drawing Room of her Windsor Castle, in Berkshire. We can spot the presence of a photo of her with her husband Philip, taken in 2007 in Broadlands in Hampshire. This image was captured on the occasion of the couple’s diamond wedding, sixty years of marriage.
From the union between Elizabeth II and Philip Mountbatten – initially prince of Greece and Denmark – will be born four children: Charles (future heir to the throne currently caught in a controversy because of its foundation), Anne, Andrew (in dirty sheets with justice because of its supposed links to the Epstein case) and Edward. It is up to them to ensure the prosperity and the future of the British crown, which is very often questioned by some of the inhabitants of the Channel despite the popularity of the queen. Elizabeth can also count on her grandson Prince William to maintain the royal fervor unlike a Harry who decided to move away …