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Royal Insight > December 2003 > Focus > The Christmas Broadcast |
 | | The Christmas message was started by The Queen's grandfather, King George V. King George had reigned since 1910, but it was not until 1932 that he delivered his first Christmas message, which was then made possible by new radio technologies. |
 | | The next Christmas, that of 1937, the King made it clear that he did not want to carry on the broadcast, as he felt it to be irretrievably linked to his father in the minds of the people. |
 | | In 1957, the 25th anniversary of the first Christmas Broadcast, delivered by her grandfather, King George V in 1932, the Christmas Broadcast was televised. |
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