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"We will meet again": Queen promises UK better times will return in moving coronavirus speech

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The Queen evoked a wartime spirit tonight drawing on her experience of living through the Blitz, telling lockdown Britain: “Better days will return, we will meet again.” In an historic address to the nation - set to be the most watched programme in British history - the 93-year-old monarch spoke of the unprecedented nature of the coronavirus war being fought around the globe.

Striking common ground with millions who have been forced to stay at home - away from family and friends - the Queen recalled her very first broadcast to the nation as a 14-year-old on October 13, 1940.

In a radio address during Children's Hour on the BBC, the then Princess Elizabeth alongside her sister Princess Margaret, addressed children living away from home

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