Friday, August 2, 2013

The Queen's never-read speech prepares her subjects for World War III

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The year is 1983. The global political stage is fraught with tension. The US-Soviet Cold War is at its height and the doomsday clock reads four to midnight. Somewhere in Westminster, London, officials are drawing up a speech for the Queen, in which the monarch will inform her subjects of the outbreak of World War III. This is that speech:


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