Overview
- The broadcast, produced by the BBC, is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Christmas Day across UK channels and Commonwealth feeds, with availability on BBC One and iPlayer.
- Filmed in Westminster Abbey’s Lady (Henry VII) Chapel, the setting underscores the pilgrimage theme at a site long associated with Edward the Confessor and royal rites.
- This marks the second consecutive year the King has recorded the message outside a royal residence, after choosing London’s Fitzrovia Chapel in 2024.
- Christmas trees visible in the set were repurposed from the Princess of Wales’s Together at Christmas service, with several later donated to The Passage and the Oak Cancer Centre.
- Recent palace guidance said the King has responded exceptionally well to treatment and that his care will move into a precautionary monitoring phase.