An Audience With The Queen

If you care, you can get Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas speech via podcast from the the royal family's web page. It was the first time the speech was podcast. I believe this is one of two scheduled speeches the monarch gives her people each year. The other one, of course, is at the opening of Parliament, which the prime minister writes for her and she reads with all the enthusiasm of a person who's just bitten into a mud sandwich. The queen, or her speechwriters, actually author the Christmas speech, on the other hand. I have no idea if there was news in the Christmas speech, since I didn't read the paper on Monday. Probably not.