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Britain's queen delivers sombre Christmas Day message
0 Comments | AFP, December, 2005
LONDON (AFP) — Britain's Queen Elizabeth II lamented the many thousands of lives lost in the past year to terrorist attacks and natural disasters in a sombre Christmas Day message broadcast.
The annual address to the nation and the Commonwealth states focused on global events rather than highlights from the monarch's own family calendar, such as her eldest son Prince Charles's second marriage in April.
"The day after my last Christmas message was broadcast, the world experienced one of the worst natural disasters ever recorded," Queen Elizabeth said, referring to the Indian Ocean tsunami on December 26, 2004.
The queen, 79, recalled a string of disasters that then hit the planet in 2005, including the hurricanes in the Caribbean and New Orleans as well as...
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