As It Happened: Queen addresses nation, as Boris Johnson goes to hospital - BBC News
The monarch thanks the NHS and key workers, as the UK's coronavirus death toll nears 5,000.
"Together we are tackling this disease… if we remain united and resolute we will overcome it".

– The aim of this address is to offer reassurance and emphasise the need for unity.

“In the years to come”, she hopes everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to the challenge.

– The Queen has an eye on how history will judge our actions today.

"Those who come after us will say..."

– Another reference to history and a strong parallel with Churchill’s speech after the fall of France in 1940 – that even after 1,000 years "they will still say: 'This was their finest hour'." It’s an implicing war reference.

– The national attributes the Queen chooses to highlight are not warlike or aggressive – she is not framing this as a struggle or a conflict.

“The pride of who we are is not in our past, it defines our present and our future.”

– A key line that aims to reassure and inspire.

Clap for carers “an expression of our national spirit” with its symbol “the rainbows drawn by children”.

– Others talk about the Blitz; the Queen celebrates a new national coming-together.

– The first direct reference to wartime and it is full of the innocence of childhood, and empathy with those who cannot see their parents, grandparents or their children.

“We will succeed – and that success will belong to every one of us.”

– Again, a steely reassurance and a call to collective effort.

“We will be with our friends again; we will be with our families; we will meet again.”

– Take heart, the Queen said, this will be over one day. And she finishes with one more glancing reference to a previous conflict and the song many remember from that time – We’ll Meet Again.