When regular television programming gave way to a message from Her Majesty the Queen on Sunday, Elizabeth II appeared on screens across the globe. In a video that had been filmed a few days earlier, she sat in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle and delivered a message of support and reassurance in the face of global crisis. With only one other person in the room–a camera operator who was dressed in full protective gear–she spoke with measured strength, recalling her wartime childhood and encouraging people around the world that they, like the people of the 1940s, would indeed meet again.
