#queenspeech

So I live in England, and Queen Elizabeth II makes a speech every Christmas. Just once before I die, I want her to show up on our screen in the middle of the afternoon in her fluffy dressing gown, absolutely wrecked from day drinking like the rest of us.

I want one of those cheap Christmas cracker crowns balanced over her big Imperial state crown, while she wobbles round a bit and rants about about the rubbish presents all the politicians got her. By the time she gets to the end she’s mumbling something indistinguishable about setting her swans on them. 

The Queen has said the UK "will succeed" in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, in a rallying message to the nation.

https://youtu.be/2klmuggOElE In a rare speech, the monarch thanked people for following government rules to stay at home and praised those "coming together to help others". She also thanked key workers, saying "every hour" of work "brings us closer to a return to more normal times". It comes as the number of people to die with the virus in the UK reached 4,934.

'We will meet again'

Speaking from Windsor Castle, the Queen said: "While we have faced challenges before, this one is different." "This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal. We will succeed - and that success will belong to every one of us. "We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again." The Queen, 93, also said the "painful sense of separation from their loved ones" that social distancing was causing for people reminded her of the experience child evacuees had during the Second World War. "Now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do," she said. An hour after the Queen's broadcast, Downing Street announced that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been taken to hospital following his coronavirus diagnosis. Mr Johnson has been self-isolating since he tested positive for the virus on 27 March.