Queen’s Christmas message stresses family values
Posted Dec 25, 2011 08:29:41 AM.
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In her annual Christmas Day message, Queen Elizabeth II stresses the importance of the bond of family and community.
Fittingly, this year saw the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, along with other acts of community, like a meeting of the Commonwealth leaders in Australia.
The Queen also took time to note that there is sometimes both good and bad in the world around us.
“Although we are capable of great acts of kindness, history teaches us that we sometimes need saving from ourselves, from our recklessness or our greed,” the Queen said.
The Queen also described how family doesn’t have to be limited to bloodlines, but can instead include any community, organization or nation.
The speech was recorded earlier this month at Buckingham Palace before Prince Philip’s hospitalization and treatment for a blocked coronary artery.
