Queen will address the nation on coronavirus crisis after recording special broadcast at Windsor Castle that will be aired at 8pm on Sunday
The Queen will address the nation in a special televised broadcast about the coronavirus outbreak from Windsor Castle which will air this Sunday at 8pm.
Buckingham Palace announced that the broadcast to ‘the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth’ by the 93-year-old monarch has already been recorded.
Royal aides have been speaking to Downing Street for a fortnight about Her Majesty giving a morale-boosting television address to the UK amid the pandemic.
The Queen speaks to Prime Minister Boris Johnson from Windsor Castle on March 25 last week
Sources had stressed last week that the country was at the start of a very long and difficult process and that the timing ‘needs to be right’.
It will be only the fourth special address of her 68-year reign. Her Majesty gave her last speech in 2002 on the eve of her mother’s funeral.
Her previous special addresses to the nation were in 1997 after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and 1991, when she spoke about the Gulf War.
A royal spokesman said: ‘Her Majesty The Queen has recorded a special broadcast to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth in relation to the coronavirus outbreak.
‘The televised address will be broadcast at 8pm on Sunday April 5, 2020. The address was recorded at Windsor Castle.’
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