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Detail showing decorated christmas trails on tables
A Royal Christmas

How the Royal Family have celebrated Christmas over the centuries

BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION

King George VI (1895-1952)

25 Dec 1944

RCIN 2000796

After King George V started the tradition of broadcasting a Christmas Message, subsequent monarchs continued to speak to the nation on Christmas Day.

This photograph shows King George VI making his radio broadcast in 1944.


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