Talk:Royal Christmas message

message: The note relating to the 1939 Christmas message indicates that "[t]he outbreak of the Second World War firmly established the Royal Christmas message."  Assuming that the article is complete, this seems doubtful at best.  If the article contains a complete listing of the Christmas messages, then there was none in 1940.  Did someone forget to remind the King it was Christmas?John Paul Parks (talk) 15:44, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Firmly Established by 1939? 

message: I  believe that this years speech is known as the 51st Queens Christmas message and that 2003 was the 50th. The reason being that there was no speech in 1969 and the coronation was not until 1953. I emphasised that 2003 was the 50th in my original article, but this was edited. Which should it be?
:You're right with everything except your counting:) . Her first one was in 1952 (maybe that's where you're going wrong instead), and she missed one speech, so her 50th was in 2002. (If you're not sure about counting, check the Royal Family's webpage on the Christmas Message - this also has 2002 as the year of the 50th speech.) jguk 10:10, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been going through my video collection (think I have every Christmas message since 1994 somewhere - I am very sad), and the Queen announced in her 2001 message that it was her 50th. I can't explain this other than that she forgot taking a year off in 1969. Dbiv 00:29, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of speeches? 

message: http://www.sim64.co.uk/queens.html may provide useful info to solve the annus horribilis question (and others). Andreww 19:59, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useful info? 

message: Why is this article under "Royal Christmas speech", a terminology that, as far as I am aware, is not used? The Royal Family website uses the terms "Christmas broadcast" and "Christmas message". Should we not use one of these terms instead? jguk 12:45, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Try a google search under "Royal Christmas speech" and you will see why I think it shouldn't be here. There are 3 hits, 2 of which are Wikipedia. jguk 10:46, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: No objection Andreww 02:17, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Why is this article here?

message: Is it really necessary to refer to each king and queen in this article as "His Late Majesty?" Simply saying, "King George VI continued the Christmas broadcasts" seems to suffice; adding "His Late Majesty" before the King's name seems unnecessary. Even Queen Elizabeth's own article only refers to the Queen as "Her Majesty" in the introduction, the titles section, and in direct quotations. 青い(Aoi) 06:00, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I quite agree and have been bold - is the history section better? Andreww 22:27, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: "Late Majesty"

message: I removed Victoria Beckham from the 2003 section. Though it was announced on the 3rd December that she was to present the message, these were only rumours. This report  from the 4th states that Channel 4 denied this, and that a couple from Wife Swap had recorded the message already.
Looking at Off The Telly's Christmas log for that year, which is only online during December and January, but here's a Google cache , it says "The Alternative Christmas Message, delivered by two of the "stars" of Wife Swap, was shown as usual at 3pm", which confirms the report. However, I've left the 2003 bit blank, as it seems a little odd to just say the message was from "a couple from Wife Swap" without saying any names. For the same reason, I've left the 1997 bit blank, as I know from Off the Telly  it was a Belfast schoolgirl, but, again, I don't know the name. BillyH 00:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative Christmas Messages 

message: Someone recently added 'BBC' or 'ITN' to the descriptions of the messages, on the principle that they alternate every year. But the 2003 message was definitely a BBC production, which means they don't.
Anyone know how they actually alternate? Every two years? BillyH 12:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: My understanding was that they alternated every three years.  Yet I come on here to find something rather different.  I hope it can be sorted out. --Ross UK 16:20, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm pleased to say that it's now sorted.  It turns out to be biennial, so I'm pleased to have learned something new. --Ross UK 17:30, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  BBC/ITN 

message: I note the claim that the 1998 broadcast was the first to appear on the internet. This is not strictly speaking true as the 1994 broadcast was the first. I know because I was the one who transcribed it from a video recording - proof archived here by Google groups. David | Talk 14:55, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this 'original research'? 

message: I have merged the info I created for the 2006 alternative Christmas message into this article. Triangle e 14:11, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Khadija Ravat

message: As a New Zealander, I have already seen it, thanks to time zones. My brief description is as follows (hidden to be invisible):
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:The clip starts with a B/W shot of the royal standard (which is just a modern colour shot made to look grey), and then goes to the intro of the *1957* message. The camera moves out, to reveal the TV that the message is playing on, and the shot then includes the Queen. She then goes on about technology, importance of the family, how Jesus was born into a family under distress (or something, I don't quite remember even 2 hrs ago!), etc... clip of troops in Afghanistan (she talks about Iraq and Afghanistan)... clip to a church choir singing God Save the Queen (I guess from the '57 video), then back to the flag, where the B/W is gradually changed to colour, with the BBC logo in the bottom right corner.
Sorry if this is a very rough description... 
202.89.153.149 (talk) 09:02, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007 Message 

message: As most of this article pertains to the British Queen's Christmas Message, it should be renamed to something more accurate and appropriate.  The Alternative Christmas Message should have its own article as they are two separate things.  Kransky (talk) 10:09, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: The Alternative Christmas Message section was split from here (without any discussion that I can see) with this edit in December 2009. It is now at Alternative Christmas message. Moonraker12 (talk) 15:29, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename and Reshuffle?

message: What had happened to the 2009 message, there is not even YouTube videos available?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.2.117.223 (talk) 17:43, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Queen Christmas message 2009 

message: This article includes a picture captioned "George V giving the 1934 Royal Christmas Message", but the table reports that "no message was delivered" in 1934. These can't both be right, but I don't know which is—can anyone shed any light on the issue? dendodge 01:03, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was there a speech in 1934? 

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message: The article contains no information on who writes the text. Is the Christmas Message really one of the few occasions where really the Queen herself presents her own views to the public? Or is the Government or anybody else involved? Is there information on possbile ghost writers? Has anything changed about these aspects over the years?--Oudeístalk  14:53, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Now addressed. Merry Christmas and Happy New 2024 to all. Pol098 (talk) 21:27, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who writes the text? 

message: The article suggests the first speech was only broadcast on the BBC Empire Service. Was it also broadcast on the UK domestic national and regional services and was it relayed by the  non-BBC stations in Australia, Canada,India etc ? Was it broadcast live everywhere or were disc recordings made for broadcast at more convenient hours in parts of the world where the live broadcast was in the middle of the night? I am afriad I don't have the sources to deal with these questions.Spinney Hill (talk) 11:05, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The first broadcast 

message: The article has many dead links like .
This is not too serious as archived links should work (they're not working for me at the moment, but probably a glitch with the Wayback Machine), but the dead links can be resuscitated by searching www.royal.gov.uk. In a link I revived I found search strings (without quotes) like site=http://www.royal.gov.uk christmas broadcast 1970 found a live link. It's likely that most links are like https://www.royal.uk/christmas-broadcast-1970 (the 1952 one isn't).
The links are (presumably always) dated 25 December of the relevant year; the access-date is quite pointless as the speech is never edited after delivery.
Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 23:11, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixable dead links