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The Queen's WW3 speech that's prepared for event of potential nuclear war

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Buckingham Palace aides prepared a speech for the Queen in case of a nuclear war amid a growing threat from Russia during the 1980s.

The speech was prepared as part of the so-called Exercise Able Archer in 1983, which was a war game that pitted Russia and the Warsaw Pact against the UK and Nato, Wales Online reports.

It was prepared in a year that then US President Ronald Reagan antagonised Russia by referring to them as “The Evil Empire”.

In a fictional scenario, the Queen would have delivered the speech after Russia launched chemical weapons, with Nato responding with a nuclear strike.

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