After all the turmoil he’s endured this year, King Charles III seemingly wants a “digital detox.” As the British royal family stepped out for its annual Christmas Day church outing, it gathered around the television to watch the monarch’s Christmas broadcast via Fox News.
The speech was filmed earlier this month inside the Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey in London, People magazine reported.
The first royal Christmas speech was delivered by King George V in 1932. Charles explained how “our world seems to spin even faster,” arguing that this makes it more important than ever to slow down, get to know our neighbors and make new friends. He noted that taking that pause can quiet our minds and give us “the still point of the turning world,” borrowing a phrase from T.S. Eliot.
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson later clarified that Charles was hinting at taking a “digital detox.”
“When His Majesty references that lovely phrase about the ‘still point in the turning world’ at a time when, as he puts it, it’s ‘spinning ever faster,’ he has in mind the effect that new technologies can have on society and how they can impact both community cohesion and general well-being, especially for younger people,” the rep told the Daily Mail.
