Queen Elizabeth's speech in the event of WWIII

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The Queen was expected to urge Britons to pray and remain united and resolute in the event of the "madness" of nuclear war, papers from 1983 show.

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[yorksranter.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

The UK did an annual transition-to-war exercise for the top level of government during the cold war, as a paper simulation. This is one of them.

Having read bits of some of them as they've been declassified, there seems to have been a tradition of incorporating a bit of black humour, and I suspect the rather camp skit on the monarch's public style (our growing family in the Commonwealth? rly?) is just that.