The televised message amid the coronavirus crisis was recorded at Windsor Castle where the head of state, who turns 94 this month, is social distancing. Steps were taken to mitigate any risk to the Queen and others, with advice taken from her doctors.
The White Drawing Room was specifically chosen to allow an appropriate distance with the cameraman, who wore PPE.
The address to the nation is a rare event, with the monarch only making three previous televised speeches after the Queen Mother's death in 2002, ahead of Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997, and about the Gulf War in 1991.
In her message, the Queen will say: "I am speaking to you at 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 to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all."
The monarch will urge Britain to prove that this generation is "as strong as any”.
She will say: "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 will say that the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.
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In other royal news, Prince William and Kate telephoned two hospitals on Wednesday in a show of support for NHS workers.
They chatted to staff from University Hospital Monklands in Scotland and Queen's Hospital Burton in the Midlands.
And Prince Charles, who has recovered from Covid-19, opened the new NHS Nightingale Hospital at the ExCel centre in London on Friday via video-link from Scotland.
The temporary facility to treat coronavirus patients was set up by NHS contractors in just over a week with the assistance of around 200 military personnel.
Charles said: "It is without doubt a spectacular and almost unbelievable feat of work in every sense - from its speed of construction as we've heard to its size and the skills of those who have created it.
"An example, if ever one was needed, of how the impossible can be made possible and how we can achieve the unthinkable through human will and ingenuity."
The prince added: "Let us also pray, ladies and gentlemen, that it will be required for as short a time, and for as few people as possible."
Elsewhere, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who officially quit royal duties on March 31, have moved to Los Angeles.
They are said to be living in lockdown close to Hollywood with their son Archie.
Royal author Penny Junor said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now "pretty irrelevant" as the Queen and other senior royals play their role in leading the nation through the coronavirus pandemic.
It comes as there have been 41,903 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the UK, with the death toll at 4,313.
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