Queen to deliver Xmas speech
2019-12-25 08:14:22 source：Global Times
December 24, 2019
Queen Elizabeth II will describe 2019 as "quite bumpy" in her traditional Christmas Day message, after a year of crises which saw Britain divided over its impending exit from the European Union and her son Prince Andrew forced to withdraw from public life.
But in some good news on Tuesday, the 93-year-old monarch's husband Prince Philip checked out of a London hospital after four nights of treatment for an undisclosed "pre-existing condition" in time to join the royal family for Christmas.
The royal family was swept up in scandals that included a calamitous BBC interview with the queen's second son.
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