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- Speech was prepared for Queen to deliver at outbreak of World War Three
- In speech she denounces ‘deadly power of abused technology’
- Words written by imaginative speech writer in disaster planning exercise
Claire Ellicott
Daily Mail
August 2, 2013
The words are full of warmth, hope and comfort. But fortunately for history, the Queen never had to say them.
Deep in the corridors of Whitehall at the height of the Cold War civil servants prepared a speech for the monarch to deliver at the outbreak of World War Three between a nuclear-armed Soviet Union and the West.
In a chilling depiction of a world on the brink of nuclear destruction, she denounces the ‘deadly power of abused technology’ – and refers to her ‘beloved son Andrew’ on the frontline. However, she rallies her country behind her, declaring in the planned broadcast: ‘Whatever terrors lie in wait for us all the qualities that have helped to keep our freedom intact twice already during this sad century will once more be our strength.’
The moving words were written by an imaginative speech writer taking part in a disaster planning exercise and are among previously secret Cabinet files newly released by the National Archives.
The writer envisages the Queen saying: ‘Not for a single moment did I imagine that this solemn and awful duty would one day fall to me.’ It continues: ‘We all know that the dangers facing us today are greater by far than at any time in our long history.’
