The Queen will address the UK later today to talk about the importance of 'self-discipline, quiet good-humored resolve and fellow-feeling'

Lindsay Dodgson

April 5, 2020 10:31 AM

Queen Elizabeth II will send a message about the importance of "self-discipline, quiet good-humored resolve and fellow-feeling" in her speech later today.

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Her Majesty will talk to the UK and Commonwealth countries about the coronavirus outbreak in the speech that will be broadcast at 8 p.m.
She will talk about this "increasingly challenging time," and urge people to "take pride in how they responded to this challenge."
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Queen Elizabeth II will address the UK and Commonwealth countries later today in a speech about the coronavirus outbreak that will be broadcast at 8 p.m.

She is expected to talk about this "increasingly challenging time," where many are facing grief, financial difficulties, and enormous changes to daily life, according to the BBC .

"I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time," she is expected to say.

"A time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all."

She will also send a message of hope, urging people to "take pride in how they responded to this challenge."

"And those who come after us will say that the Britons of this generation were as strong as any," Her Majesty will say. "That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humored resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterize this country."

The BBC reported the message was recorded by a single cameraman wearing protective equipment at Windsor Castle, where the Queen is currently self-isolating with her husband Prince Philip.

This is only the fourth time in her 68 year reign that Her Majesty will make a broadcast of this kind, according to ITV royal editor Chris Ship . Previously, she has only spoken to the nations in this way, besides her annual Christmas speech, in 1991 about the Gulf War, in 1997 addressing the death of Princess Diana, and in 2002 for the Queen Mother's Funeral.

The number of deaths due to the coronavirus in the UK has now reached 4,313 on Saturday.

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