Sure enough, there was.”ĭespite their success, the Queen’s live televised broadcasts didn’t last long. “However, in the run-through the Queen quickly spotted that it wasn’t the right book and asked whether there was a copy in the library. “The lines were printed on a sheet of paper inserted inside the book,” Webber recalled. During the historic moment, the Queen picked up a book and read a few lines from John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. She also proved to be a stickler for details.

“The Queen was extremely accomplished with the teleprompter and read the message brilliantly.” “We had a run-through on the day and then went straight into the live broadcast,” Richard Webber, who was in charge of production, told The Telegraph. But now at least for a few minutes I welcome you to the peace of my own home.”Īlthough delivering the message to camera was a first for a British monarch, the Queen, who had given her first Christmas broadcast just five years earlier, was a pro. 'A successor to the Kings and Queens of history someone whose face may be familiar in newspapers and films but who never really touches your personal lives. “It is inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you,' the Queen added. “I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct,” she said as she read from the Long Library in Sandringham at 3 p.m. Would they remain forever aloof and removed-or let the public in, little by little? With her first address, Queen Elizabeth made a convincing step toward openness. In many ways, the evolution of the Christmas message mirrors the royal family's struggle to transform into a modern monarchy-to balance their roles as iconic figureheads with the insatiable thirst for information about their lives and relationships.

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