I think we should take a look at King Charles’s 2025 Christmas Day message to see why he was so, as it were, ‘on-message’.
It was King George V who delivered the first one. The present King’s great-grandfather was live on radio from Sandringham at 3pm in 1932.
It was clever timing, encroaching neither on your grandparents’ Christmas lunch nor on a later dinner. Whole families would set aside 3pm to gather round, first the radio, then, from 1957, the television, hanging on every word of his majesty, then her majesty, and now his majesty all over again. I remember my parents doing exactly that.
From radio to cut-away shots
There have only been three years since when the avid listener was disappointed. There was no broadcast in 1936 following the abdication of King Edward VIII. King George VI did not give an address in 1938. In 1959 and 1963, the messages went out solely on radio, because Her Majesty was pregnant, with, respectively, Andrew and Edward.
And in 1969 BBC bosses repeated the documentary, Royal Family, on Christmas Day, so Her Majesty issued a written message instead. But the monarch’s Christmas broadcast has been an unbroken televised tradition now since nineteen-seventy.
In nineteen seventy-one the Queen included Andrew and Edward, then aged eleven and seven, looking at old family photos. This year, we had endless visual footage of various members of the, er, working, royal family doing things among ordinary people. There was Sophie talking to veterans, Prince William first in uniform as an RAF Wing Commander, then in an apron.
Prov 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
’Communities’ in the plural
And of course, fifty-six years later, as you well know, this United Kingdom is a very different place, and not just in the skill of editing in strategic cut-away shots.
Her late majesty had no need to refer to ‘communities’, in the plural, in 1970. King Charles, on the other hand, mentioned ‘communities’ no fewer than four times this year, beating 2023’s three times.
His first mention was a grating claim that ‘communities’ came together in the two world wars. No, Your Majesty, it was the whole nation which came together. It’s spin to force today’s language and politics into the Britain of nineteen thirty-nine.
Psalm 133:1 A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
’Communities came together’
Last year, His Majesty referred to ‘anger and lawlessness in several towns’ before going on to praise ‘how communities came together’. This year, the nearness of the Heaton Park Synagogue attack and especially the Bondi Beach massacre made it inevitable that His Majesty would make reference to them.
Both were however only in visual footage, accompanying the king’s innocuous voice-over:
‘to the ways in which individuals and communities display spontaneous bravery, instinctively placing themselves in harm’s way to defend others.’
The king went on: “As I meet people of different faiths, I find it enormously encouraging to hear how much we have in common; a shared longing for peace and a deep respect for all life.”
No ‘longing for peace’ in Islam
But His Majesty’s knowledge of other faiths must tell him that the “longing for peace and a deep respect for all life” are not shared across them all. They are present in Judaism and in the Christian faith, and Christians sometimes assume they must be there in every faith.
But the reality is, “longing for peace” and any kind of respect for human life are not part of the Mohammedan religion. They are replaced with a longing for conquest and submission and a desire for martyrdom. And those principles are now observed by 4 million of His Majesty’s subjects here in the UK.
Prov 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
And they do indeed, with their ghettos, where English, if spoken at all, is a minority language, form separate communities from the rest of us.
Establishment propaganda
Php 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
So I have to say that his majesty is mis-advised. He may even be mis-advising himself, when he feels he has to paint “the great diversity of our communities” as where “we can find the strength to ensure that right triumphs over wrong.”
People watching, listening, will know that is not true. It’s a non-sequitor. It reminds me of Lola McEvoy MP, after the Bondi Beach massacre, claiming: ‘Diversity is our strength’.
The audience heard His Majesty spout the same multicultural slogan.
It’s at best wishful thinking and at worst it’s establishment propaganda, otherwise known as ‘gaslighting’. It’s the King ‘on message’, doing politics, at odds with what a majority, now two-thirds (67%) of UK adults think, that the number of people coming into the UK is too high.
Islam is a threat
As for the religious system they are bringing with them, in February 2024, more than half of Conservative Party members said in a poll that Islam is a threat to the British way of life.
30% of the general public agreed.
And that was before Bondi, before Heaton Park, before the flood of migrant sex crimes, before the hotel protests, before the Southport murders, before the General election even. Lee Anderson was still a Tory MP when that poll was commissioned by the pro-migrant Hope Not Hate.
The elephant in the room is that two of his majesty’s ‘communities’ cannot co-exist. In his land, right now, the Jewish ‘community’ are under attack from the Muslim ‘community’, three quarters of whom believe Hamas terrorists are good guys and that there should be no state of Israel.
Numb 24:9b Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Only Christianity preaches the blood of Jesus
The “prayer for peace and reconciliation” his Majesty made cannot exist without the original intention of the angels’ proclamation to the shepherds, the spiritual dimension of peace and reconciliation with God in heaven. That can only come through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus, which only the Christian faith proclaims and ministers. To the Sikh ‘community’ redemption through the blood is nonsense, to the Muslim one, blasphemy.
Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
The king’s heart is clearly for peace and happiness in his realm, but he won’t find it in the multicultural secularist belief system of the British establishment. It will only be found in the King of kings, the Lord Jesus.
I invite you to agree with me that it is only if and when our elite proclaim the Christian faith and our Christian heritage and constitution, as exemplified in His Majesty’s coronation on 6th May 2023, that right, and truth, will triumph over wrong.
1Cor 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
Name the Lord Jesus!
We pray that next year His Majesty might actually name the Lord Jesus, not refer to him obliquely as “The One who ‘came down to Earth from Heaven’, ‘whose shelter was a stable’ and who shared his life with ‘the poor and lowly’.” Because if you are not already Christian, you won’t know who he’s talking about.
The true ‘message of Christmas’ is not family, or fellowship, or travelling, or presents. No, it’s that at a certain point in history, God, the Maker of the stars and sea, humbled himself to become one of us, a child on earth in the Lord Jesus. Without Christmas there’s no Easter. The incarnation starts the reconciliation. It’s that important.
You know, a time is coming, and now is, when His Majesty will need to proclaim the Lord Jesus and his defining place in our nation in his Christmas broadcast, rather than allow it to descend into a cross between the BBC’s Thought for the Day, establishment propaganda and a Royal Family promo.
1Tim 6:15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
I’m glad His Majesty concluded: “So, with these words and my whole heart, I wish you all a most peaceful and very happy Christmas.” We received that wish in our household at least.
Prayer for the king
1Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus: 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
I think it would be appropriate for us to pray the prayer for His Majesty found in both morning prayer and evensong in the Anglican tradition:
O Lord our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only Ruler of princes, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord, King Charles; and so replenish him with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that he may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: endue him plenteously with heavenly gifts; grant him in health and wealth long to live; strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies; and finally, after this life, he may attain everlasting joy and felicity; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
Write to King Charles
The Bible says:
Eccl 4:13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Is His Majesty that king? If so, if he desires honour, it’s time for humility:
Prov 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
WRITE TO THE KING: ‘His Majesty The King, Buckingham Palace, London, SW1A 1AA’. You can open with ‘Sir’ (although I write: ‘May it please Your Majesty’) and close the letter with the form ‘I have the honour to be, Sir, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient servant’.
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