There’s not much we can rely on anymore to happen year-to-year, without question, but one standby on Christmas Day for the royal family is this: the King’s Speech (formerly, for 70 years, the Queen’s Speech) will air at 3 p.m. U.K. time on December 25. This year, it seems, King Charles has gone rogue with the speech, with Tatler reporting that Charles penned it without the help of advisors and that it will be more extemporaneous, the outlet reports.
The first Christmas broadcast was delivered by King George V in 1932 and has become a tradition for all in the U.K. and those who follow the royal family around the globe. This year, following a developing instinct of Charles’ for speaking off the cuff, Charles has eschewed advice in favor of doing it his own way, it seems. The Daily Mail reports he has written the speech without recourse to royal advisors; now 75 years old and having gotten the hang of this whole royal thing, Charles is “becoming increasingly confident in an instinctual approach to public speaking,” Tatler writes. “No doubt, he has plenty of experience by now.”
