Thursday December 25, 2025 | UNITED KINGDOM [Posted in VICTORIA, BC – 3:03 am PT]
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
[UPDATE: Content of speech will be posted as available]
King Charles III will deliver his Christmas Message 2025 from Westminster Abbey.
According to British press, he 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 3 pm London Time (7 am PT) on Christmas Day, December 25.
Earlier this month, The King delivered a speech about responding well to cancer treatment.
New setting this year:
Last year the speech was given in the Fitzrovia Chapel, which once served hospital staff — a symbolic location for a message focusing on the King’s thanks for health workers.
This year’s setting is below the Lady Chapel’s medieval vaulted ceiling, in a chapel where 15 previous kings and queens are buried, including Elizabeth I, Mary I and Charles II.
It also means that for a second year the Christmas message won’t be delivered from behind a desk inside a palace, as Queen Elizabeth II used to do.
Reusing the Christmas trees:
For this year’s speech, King Charles will be seen standing in front of Christmas trees as brought to decorate the Abbey for the Princess of Wales’s carol concert held earlier this month.
There could be a message in that as to environmental conservation and frugality.
Tradition of televised speeches:
The tradition of an annual Christmas broadcast from the monarch by which to reflect on the year past and delivering some commentary on current events, dates back to 1932 when King George V delivered a speech on the radio.
The first televised Christmas speech was delivered by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957.
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