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Queen Elizabeth launches YouTube channel

This morning, Britain's 81-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, launched her own special "Royal Channel" on YouTube.

The Queen has said she will use the video sharing site to send out her 50th annual televised Christmas message. Buckingham Palace has also added archive and recent footage of the queen and the royal family to the channel and hopes to add new clips regularly.

"The queen always keeps abreast with new ways of communicating with people," Buckingham Palace said in a statement. "The Christmas message was podcast last year."



The palace continued, "She has always been aware of reaching more people and adapting the communication to suit. This will make the Christmas message more accessible to younger people and those in other countries."

The channel has video clips of state visits, garden parties, footage of the queen's 1957 Christmas TV broadcast and even rarely seen silent news footage of the 1923 wedding of the queen's parents, then known as the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

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Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 23 Dec 2007 17:49

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• ZippyDSM

  I am sure its her "people" and nt her, but its nice.....I am waiting for bush and co. to have their own you tube channel.... and ban for life trolls and spammers :P

  23.12.2007 19:13 #1

• SamNz

  Originally posted by ZippyDSM: I am sure its her "people" and nt her, but its nice.....I am waiting for bush and co. to have their own you tube channel.... and ban for life trolls and spammers :Phaha he would prolly use it to start some kind of war,

  24.12.2007 02:53 #2

• veyron

  Originally posted by ZippyDSM: ...I am waiting for bush and co. to have their own you tube channel.... and ban for life trolls and spammers :PAnyone who posts a derogatory comment on that channel will have there data streams monitored for life!

  24.12.2007 15:54 #3

• ZippyDSM

  Quote:Originally posted by ZippyDSM: ...I am waiting for bush and co. to have their own you tube channel.... and ban for life trolls and spammers :PAnyone who posts a derogatory comment on that channel will have there data streams monitored for life!I was thinking more like banned for life i.e disappearing :P

  24.12.2007 16:00 #4

• chaos_zzz

  i bet these commments are already being monitored

  25.12.2007 12:35 #5

• borhan9

  Thw Queen is keeping up with the pace of technology well done.

  28.12.2007 19:15 #6

• squizluke

  Originally posted by ZippyDSM: I am sure its her "people" and nt her, but its nice.....I am waiting for bush and co. to have their own you tube channel.... and ban for life trolls and spammers :PI think the less bush says and does the better.

  31.12.2007 08:37 #7