King Charles has sensationally broken royal tradition with this year’s Christmas Day address as the monarch has “written the script himself,” according to a royal insider.
Charles, 75, penned the poignant festive message “without recourse to advisers” — a typically standard royal custom adhered to by his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
“With his Christmas Day message in the bag, King Charles has, according to my source, written the script himself without recourse to advisers,” royal insider and expert Ephraim Hardcastle told the Daily Mail.
“This follows last year’s inaugural address to the nation when officials were only allowed to make minor alterations to fit with archive footage inserted by the producers.”
“The King has learnt that he speaks best when he does so as off-the-cuff as possible, a talent he learnt relatively late in life,” Hardcastle added.
The Post has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.
Charles last year delivered a moving message of grief and loss in his first Christmas address since taking the throne following Queen Elizabeth’s death on Sept. 8, 2022.
The King recorded last year’s speech in the Quire of St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, where the Queen and Prince Philip are buried.
“Christmas is a particularly poignant time for all of us who have lost loved ones,” he said in his Christmas Day address to the nation at the time.
“I am reminded of the deeply touching letters, cards and messages which so many of you have sent my wife and myself and I cannot thank you enough for the love and sympathy you have shown our whole family.”
Charles was standing for his speech, whereas his late mother was always seated and surrounded by family portraits — a move Charles decided to swerve.
“We feel their absence of every familiar turn of the season, and remember them in each cherished tradition,” he continued, adding that his mother’s “belief in the power of that light was an essential part of her faith in God, but also her faith in people — and it is one which I share with whole my heart.”
Charles went on to commend “health and social care professionals,” teachers and “all those in public service.”
The King will host the royal family’s traditional Christmas gathering at Sandringham Estate, which is not expected to be attended by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for the fourth year in a row.
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