In the first televised Christmas Broadcast in 1957, a young Queen Elizabeth II said something remarkably prescient and poignant:
‘The trouble is caused by unthinking people, who carelessly throw away ageless ideals as if they are old and outworn machinery. They would have religion thrown aside, morality, and personal and public life made meaningless, honesty counted as foolishness, and self-interest set up in place of self-restraint.’
The late monarch, unlike so many in the public sphere, lived as she spoke.
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