Britain's queen calls 2009 "difficult year"

2009/12/25 13:09:52 @Reuters: World News

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth paid tribute to the armed forces and referred to the recession in her annual Christmas Day message on Friday, describing 2009 as a "difficult year." div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=dNU4dodb_WU:oBTpdfk7fEo:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=dNU4dodb_WU:oBTpdfk7fEo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=dNU4dodb_WU:oBTpdfk7fEo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=dNU4dodb_WU:oBTpdfk7fEo:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=dNU4dodb_WU:oBTpdfk7fEo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/dNU4dodb_WU" height="1" width="1"/
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