The video above is the annual Christmas broadcast by King Charles III, the King of New Zealand (and other places). As is usually the case, I didn’t see the message broadcast on New Zealand television, though I assume it was (I was at our family Crhistmas gathering at the time), however, I didn’t check that. At any rate, I’ve been sharing the royal messages every year for more than a decade.
I’ve never been a fan of the religiosity that the royal messages have always contained, something they do because the UK monarch is head of the Church of England (aka Anglican Church). But I’m not even remotely religious, and only a minority of New Zealanders are Anglivan—actually, people who say they have any religious identification now make up a minority of New Zealanders, the majority of whom now identify as “Nones”, something I talked about last year. Still, it’s traditional for the monarch to talk about the UK’s homegrown brand of Christianity, and, of course, what I think about it is irrelevent.
These TV broadcast messages are also a tradition themselves, dating back some 68 years. As long as they (and this blog…) continue, I’ll keep sharing them. That, too, is now a tradition.
Previously:
The King's Christmas Broadcast 2024
The King's Christmas Broadcast 2023
The King’s first Christmas Broadcast – 2022 (oddly, the video is no longer available, but the post has my commentary about it.
The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 2021
The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 2020
The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 2019
The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 2018
The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 2017 (and 1957, too…)
The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 2016
The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 2015
Previous years’ broadcasts are no longer available.
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