British queen records special Christmas message for troops
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The British Queen Elizabeth II has recorded a special Christmas message for British troops, Buckingham Palace revealed on Thursday.
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The Queen is calling on people to take care of the more vulnerable in her traditional Christmas speech.
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Troop Greetings on Demand, featuring videotaped holiday greetings from service members overseas, is being featured on Comcast Cable's video on demand service through Jan. 22.
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The Queen&#39;s Christmas message, an annual greeting from the U.K.&#39;s Queen Elizabeth II to her subjects, will be available on YouTube for the first time this year as part of an official YouTube channel opened on Sunday by Buckingham Palace.The Royal Channel , dubbed &quot;the official YouTube channel of the British monarchy,&quot; carries both current and archive footage of the royal family and promises regular updates with new video.The highlight of the first 18 videos is the first televised Christmas Broadcast of 1957. The channel also includes clips of The Queen Mother&#39;s wedding and the first episodes of several series such as &quot;A day in the life of The Prince of Wales.&quot;The clips have already attracted several thousand views since hitting YouTube about a week ago, according to statistics on the site. The 1957 broadcast has garnered a lot more attention and had just under 300,000 views at time of writing. That makes it the fifth most popular video viewed in the U.K. this week, according to YouTube.Beating The Queen to the top-spot in the U.K. is a trailer for a new season of TV show &quot;Lost,&quot; a teaser for the long-awaited &quot;Duke Nukem Forever&quot; computer game, a clip of the winning entry from TV show &quot;X Factor&quot; and, as the most-viewed video of the week in the U.K., a video from a Britney Spears look-a-like offering parenting tips to Britney&#39;s pregnant sister.Buckingham Palace established its cyber credentials last year when it began offering The Queen&#39;s Christmas Message and other addresses via an RSS feed for download into iPods and other video players. Until then it had been most widely available online through the BBC&#39;s Web site.This year&#39;s Christmas Message will be available shortly after 3pm local time (3pm GMT) on Dec. 25, at about the same time it is broadcast on British TV.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth made a personal donation to the British Red Cross to help victims of the Russian Beslan school siege tragedy.
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President Bush issued a holiday-season call on Americans to volunteer and give to charity &#151; "to share our blessings with the least among us." He singled out for special praise those who have given time and energy to U.S. troops stationed around the world.
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Queen Elizabeth has called for tolerance between different cultural and religious groups in her Christmas address to the nation. &quot;Religion and culture are much in the news these days, usually
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The Queen sends a special Christmas message of 'gratitude and respect' to British troops in Iraq.
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In this file handout photo released by the British army on Sunday July 9, 2006 Prince Harry, youngest son of Prince Charles and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, in a Spartan armoured reconnaissance vehicle.Comment
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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh has led millions of Britons in observing a two-minute silence on Armistice Day to remember those who have died in war.
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Prince William was commissioned as an officer in the British Army on Friday as his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, served as the reviewing officer.Comment
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Queen Elizabeth II led ceremonies nationwide to remember the dead of World War I, World War II and other wars, as historians rush to record the memories of a fast dwindling group of old soldiers.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II reads the legislative program from the throne to the assembled House of Lords in London in this Wednesday, June 20, 2001 file photo.Comment
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Queen Elizabeth II on Friday sent a message of congratulations to Malaysia&#39;s King Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin on the 50th anniversary of his country&#39;s independence from Britain.
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LONDON - Queen Elizabeth urged people to set aside cultural and religious differences, as she delivered her annual Christmas Day message on Saturday.
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"All the great religious teachings of the world press home the message that everyone has a responsibility to care for the vulnerable"  British Queen Elizabeth II called on her people on Tuesday to take care of the vulnerable of the society and praised the positive value of a happy family. via People's Daily
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The British government on Wednesday issued a warning for its citizens against traveling to Indonesia over the coming Christmas and the New Year period because there is a &quot;heightened risk of attacks&quot;.