Overview
- Palace footage shows the address was recorded on December 11 in the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey.
- The broadcast is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Christmas Day, continuing a tradition that dates to 1932 on radio and 1957 on television.
- This is the second consecutive year the speech was taped outside a royal residence, following 2024’s Fitzrovia Chapel recording and marking only the second such departure since 2006.
- Officials say the King is responding well to cancer treatment, and he said in a Channel 4 message that his therapies will be reduced in 2026.
- Staging details include Christmas trees reused from Princess Kate’s carol concert, with the Abbey choice aligning with Charles’s interest in interfaith reflection.