Queen’s Christmas message on recent world changes

Title

Queen’s Christmas message on recent world changes

Genre

Speech

TX Date

25 Dec 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:06:54

Description

The Queen’s Christmas message to the Commonwealth, in which she reflects on changes in the world since her first broadcast in 1952 and what the free world now has to offer to the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries which have broken free of dictatorship. Also praises the mutual agreement reached by the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Zimbabwe.

Contributors

Queen Elizabeth II

Keywords

USSR; Queen’s speech; Political reform; Zimbabwe; Commonwealth of Nations; Christmas; Eastern Europe

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