The Queen’s Christmas message is to be made available through Alexa smart devices this year, Amazon has announced.
The annual Christmas Day tradition, which began with a radio broadcast by George V in 1932, will allow users to ask voice-controlled assistant Alexa to play the speech in full for the first time.
From 3pm on Christmas Day, people will be able to say “Alexa, play the Queen’s Christmas Day message” or “Alexa, play Queen Elizabeth’s Christmas Day message”.
It will work on Amazon Echo speakers across the Commonwealth and beyond which have language settings as either British English, as well as American, Australian, Canadian or Indian varieties of English.