off of the Queens similar annual speech. Now it is televised  annually on the first day of the year on several channels. The Prime  Ministers speech is usually taped a few days ahead of broadcasting  due to the fact that there is an official state dinner on January  1st. This brought Queen Margrethe of Denmark to call it a "canned  speech" in a conversation with Poul Schlüter (qv).  Poul Schlüter (qv), who delivered eleven New Years speeches, has  stated that he would always spend his Christmas break on the first  floor of his residence Marienborg writing the speech on a Torpedo  typewriter.