But what I know is an increasingly challenging time, a time of disruption in the life of our country, a disruption that has brought grief to some financial difficulties.

Too many an enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.

I want to thank everyone on the N.

H s front line as well as care workers.

And there's carrying out a central roles who selflessly continue their day to day duties outside the home in support of us all.

I'm sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to return to more normal times.

I also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, thereby helping to protect the vulnerable, unsparing many families, the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones Together.

We are tackling this disease and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, then we would overcome it.

I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge and those who come after us.

We'll say the Britons of this generation were a strong as any that the attributes of self discipline, of quiet, good humored resolve and a fellow feeling still characterize this country.

The pride in who we are is not a part of our past.

It defines our present and our future.

What theme moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud, it's Karen.

Essential workers will be remembered as an expression of our national spirit, and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by Children across the common wilson around the world.

We have seen heartwarming stories of people coming together to help others be it through delivering food, parcels and medicines, checking on neighbors or converting businesses to help the relief effort.

And those self isolating may at times be hard.

Many people of all face end of none, are discovering that it presents an opportunity to slow down, pause and reflect in prayer or meditation.

It reminds me of the very first broadcast I made in 1940 helped by my sister.

We as Children, spoke from here at Windsor to Children who had been evacuated from their homes of sent away for their own safety today, Once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones.

But now, as then, we know deep down that it is the right thing to do.

While we have faced challenges before, this one is different.

This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavor, using the great advances or sounds and our instinctive compassion to hell.

We will succeed on that.

Success will belong to everyone of us.

We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return.

We will be with our friends again.

We will be with our families again.

We will meet again.

But for now I send my thanks and warmest good wishes to all emotional words from Her Majesty the Queen.

There, our chief correspondent, Alex Thompson, joins me now with some reflections on that message.

Alex, the timing of this is interesting.

No doubt Downing Street and the palace would have been in conversation for sometime.

Absolutely.

These things are not simply dreamt up, and they are rare events.

But to choose a previous one, the Gulf War 1991 that is event that touched many people in the countries of the United Kingdom.

This obviously touches all of us.

So the time he was absolutely crucial.

You pretty much have to do it on a Sunday night, although many would argue that most of us were running on Sunday.

Exactly.

If you do it too early, you're engendering panic on Downing Street gets the blame on Dhe.

Obviously, the government's been in the frame in many, many reasons during this this crisis so far, so that was a crucial factor.

Do it too late and you appear to be behind the curve.

And that, of course, has been the center of the eye of the storm for criticism against the government.

So the nexus between Downing Street on Ginza on Buckingham Palace, of course, would dictate that pretty much this was the time, because that's where the medicine is going.

The worst is yet to come, but the worst is now, we think, imminent.

We heard the queen there talk about her first broadcast in 1940.

She has been a constant figure, a unifying figure, many yes, a unifying figure.

I commend to two things the video that they use very carefree was, of course, these extraordinary third Thursday night.

Eight o'clock outpourings off off unity on another current by a doctor on this program tonight, where he said, how different things are from Brexit, where we talked about the disunited king of the Onion eyeticket of the deep divisions.

This is very British, is very consensual.

It is working.

They've got the critical mass of people behaving themselves.

It's not.

Francois got 100,000 police and piece of paper when you want to go out and buy some eggs from the shop, it's not Spain, for instance, where if you want your dog more than 50 meters from your house, you lick it a 600 euro fine and the police are out there.

So far, it's working.

But they're just today underlying the necessity that it has to go on working.

The weather's getting warmer, people's tempers and peoples strength and wherewithal to keep to these shores will get more and more tested.

But as the government stresses from the medics, that is absolutely crucial.

That message keeps being hammered home.

Alex Thompson, thank you very much.