The Queens speech to be broadcast on YouTube.

The Royal Household has launched a Royal Channel on the popular video sharing website "YouTube". The channel which has gone live today, showcases both archive and modern video of The Queen and other Members of the Royal Family and Royal events.

At it's launch, the channel displayed the first televised Christmas Broadcast of 1957 as its main video. The access to this restricted footage has been granted to mark the 50th anniversary this year of the first televised Christmas Broadcast.

The Royal Channel on YouTube will also show The Queen's 2007 Christmas Broadcast for the first time from approximately 3pm GMT on the 25th December - Christmas Day; the same time as the traditional broadcast on television.

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