Britain's Queen to Address U.N.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York this summer, the first time she has done so in more than 50 years, Buckingham Palace announced Friday.

The monarch will make her speech on July 6, following a royal tour of Canada, the palace said.

Elizabeth last addressed the General Assembly in 1957, when she highlighted the U.N.'s importance and expressed her wish that it would carry out the ideals set out in its founding charter.

The palace didn't say what the topic of the queen's new U.N. speech would be.

She will address the global organization as head of state of the U.K. and 15 other U.N. member states, including Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

The queen will be accompanied on the trip by her husband, Prince Philip.

[barbaram99]

The Queen is head of state..I feel her title should be used..That being Her Majesty, I am an American. The Queen is an vet..She is a senior as she is in her 80s. Due to her age she should not be addressd by her first name.

[proudmilvet]

myeyedea: Okay. How about,"Liz last addressed the General Assembly in 1957." Lighten up! The rest of the world is not under her reign.

[wdh3007]

Why address this useless organization unless you have a purpose I would be more concerned if the UN ever decided to put a new tax on certain countries maybe she is too.

[mrjustice1]

Queen Elizab and other parasites should wash our toilets, scrub our floors, and sit on war frontlines to risk their own lives.

We the common people, have worked and slaved and died for parasitic monarchs for too many millennia.

Off with her head!

[myeyedea]

"Elizabeth last addressed the General Assembly in 1957"

How dare you CBS? Do not refer to the Queen by her first name. Her Majesty deserves no such disrespect from you.