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That year, King George V read the first Royal Christmas message, which was scripted by Rudyard Kipling; the King was originally hesitant about using the relatively untested medium of radio, but was reassured after a summertime visit to the BBC and agreed to carry out the concept and read the speech from a temporary studio set up at Sandringham ...
The King’s great-grandfather, King George V, delivered the first royal Christmas broadcast live on the radio from Sandringham 90 years ago. He had reigned since 1910, but it was not until 1932 ...
Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, broadcasting a speech from the Royal Flying Doctors Base at Mt Isa, Queensland, 1970. Special addresses by the monarch of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms (and previously of the British Empire and its Dominions), outside the annual Royal Christmas Message and the Commonwealth Day Message, only take place at times of significant national or ...
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. George was born during the reign of his paternal grandmother, Queen Victoria , as the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King ...
The King is to spend Christmas Day at Sandringham this year, marking a return to the traditional royal family Christmas on the Norfolk estate. ... George V, the Queen’s grandfather, described ...
The King has been filmed beside a Christmas tree, which has since been donated to a hospice in Clapham. ... The King's speech on Christmas Day follows a tradition dating back to 1932, when George ...
The poem, written in 1908 and privately published in 1912, was part of a collection titled The Desert.It caught the public attention and the popular imagination when King George VI quoted it in his 1939 Christmas broadcast to the British Empire.
King George V succeeded to the throne of the United Kingdom in May, 1910. Before his accession, he made extensive tours of territories of the British Empire or under British control as the heir to the throne, including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and India.