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Wales Online
Wales Online
Jake Meeus-Jones & Steven Smith

Royal superfan Andy watches the King's Christmas speech at 3pm every day

Meet the Royal superfan who watches the King's speech every day - after tuning into the Queen's Speech daily for the past three decades. Andy Park, 59, pretends every day is December 25 and sits down at 3pm to hear what His Majesty has to say.

He keeps his Christmas decorations up year-round and plans to record the Kings' upcoming Coronation on his DVD player so he can watch it back. Andy still watches the Queen's speeches too and picks a different one each day and says the late monarch's address from 1997 is his favourite. He says King Charles' first speech was "very low" compared to his late mother's, but believes it was because of the "problems the family faced with Prince Harry and Prince Andrew".

Andy, an electrician, from Melksham, Wiltshire, said: "I've watched it every day since Christmas. I juggle them up so one day I might listen to 1997 and the next day I might listen to 2004.

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