King Charles releasing a sneak preview of his Christmas Day message marks a new tradition that will continue, royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams has claimed. The behind-the-scenes glimpse of the monarch's annual broadcast,

King Charles has strayed from royal tradition with his year’s Christmas speech. The monarch, 76, who opted to break tradition last year by writing the speech himself, has prerecorded his festive broadcast in a different location to that of previous years.

King Charles will deliver his Christmas Day message from a church with links to the medical community, Buckingham Palace said Monday, in a break with tradition amid his continued cancer treatment.