King Charles’s Christmas Speech was the most-watched television on Christmas Day in the United Kingdom, with families throughout the country pausing their turkey feasts for the 10-minute speech. In the speech, King Charles called for a "digital detox" as he quoted TS Eliot, saying we are “at the still point of the turning world.”
“Indeed, as our world seems to spin ever faster,” The King suggested that the Christmas period could allow us time to “pause, to quieten our minds [...] and allow our souls to renew.” While the King’s speech felt historic and poetic his sentiment was incredibly modern. A Buckingham Palace spokesman explained that “when His Majesty references that lovely phrase about the "still point in the turning world" at a time when, as he puts it, it's "spinning ever faster" he has in mind the effect that new technologies can have on society.”
