PROTEST BY SOCIETY
Queen’s Speech Criticised
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)
LONDON, Dec. 29.
The Queen’s Christmas broadcast drew a protest from a royalist society because of its lack of religious content. The 550-strong Royal Stuart Society sent a letter to Buckingham Palace saying this must have caused “offence and confusion” to millions of her subjects. The society, one of whose vice-presidents is the Earl of Strathmore, a cousin of the Queen, noted that the broadcast made no mention of Christ or of God or of the significance of Christ’s birth and life.
It suggested that if the Royal advisers had decided that public mention of Christ’s name by the Queen must be avoided in deference to humanists, agnostics and other non-Christians this annual broadcast be “transferred in future years from a religious to a secular festival.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30947, 31 December 1965, Page 2
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