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Abigail O'Leary

King Charles honours Queen in first Christmas message filmed yards from final resting place

King Charles will pay tribute to his mother during his first Christmas Day TV message - delivered just yards away from the Queen's final resting place. A picture showing him recording the speech in St George’s Chapel, Windsor, has been released tonight with the monarch pledging to unify his family after a year of scandals.

In a change from the way his mother ­delivered her speech in recent decades sitting at a desk, the King is standing instead, the Mirror reports. The Queen was buried in the George VI Memorial Chapel, within St George’s, alongside the Duke of Edinburgh following her death on September 8.

Charles spoke movingly about his “beloved mother” in his first broadcast as King just a day after her death. He said: “We owe her the most ­heartfelt debt any family can owe to their mother. For her love, ­affection, guidance, understanding and example.”

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