Today's the day when in 1992 the Queen's Speech was published by The Sun newspaper two days before its scheduled broadcast. This sparked a full investigation from the BBC into the unprecedented leak. The script was spread across the centre pages of the newspaper and was virtually word-for-word the text of the five-minute broadcast, recorded at Sandringham. Buckingham Palace denounced it as '"very regrettable" and signalled a clampdown on the future advance availability of the speech to the world's press. It also warned other media organisations against reporting information from the newspaper.
As we anticipate this year's Queen's Speech, the Palace will be hoping that her words will be heard by the public at just the right time – Christmas Day – and that no premature leaks will spoil this. Way back at the first Christmas the Son of God was born at just the right time – the time God chose to humble himself and enter this world in the humility of a baby and offer a way for all people to come to know him. This is what the Bible says in Galatians 4:
But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father."7So you are no longer a slave, but God's children; and since you are his children, he has made you also his heirs.
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