On Sunday afternoon (Sunday evening U.K. time), Queen Elizabeth II delivered a brave and stoic speech about the coronavirus pandemic to the people of the U.K.
that left people both inside and outside of the Commonwealth sobbing. "I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time," the monarch begun. "A time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all." Royal reporter Rebecca English wrote on Twitter: "I defy anyone not to have a lump in their throat as the Queen, echoing Dame Vera Lynn, says: ‘We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be