The Queen to visit Google (old queen's belated passion for Internet)

Telegraph ^ | 09/11/08 | Andrew Pierce

[TigerLikesRooster]

The Queen to visit Google

She already exchanges emails with her grandchildren and she has shared video on YouTube but now the Queen plans to make a further foray into the world of cyberspace with a visit to Google.

By Andrew Pierce

Last Updated: 10:37AM BST 11 Sep 2008

The trip to the British headquarters of the world's most used internet search engine next month is at the express request of the monarch.

The Queen, 82, who learnt to use a computer only two years also, was the first monarch to set up her own channel on the video-sharing website YouTube.

She now regularly emails all her grandchildren including Princes William and Harry and Zara Phillips. She has become so fascinated by the internet that she has ordered a major upgrade of the Buckingham Palace website which will boast more video footage and be made more user friendly.

When she goes to Google, the internet search engine, the Queen will be introduced to the staff who created the Royal channel on YouTube which allows users to upload and share video clips. She will also meet other people who have YouTube sites.

[TigerLikesRooster]

I heard that, during WWII, she volunteered to drive a transportation truck for military in London, and she became quite a car mechanic herself. Reportedly, she regularly fixed her own cars.

Now it appears that her 'inner geek' launched itself into a new direction at this late age.:-)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Sloth]

I assume the comments are deactivated on the Queen's YouTube channel, to prevent her from scrolling through pages of stuff like:

All your castle are belong to us BRITAIN SUCKS

OMG Hey Queen do you like have a servant who wipes your butt when you take a dump? LOL

Why'd you kill your daughter-in-law, was she pregnant by that Arab dude? you old bitch

[Buckhead]

i bet she plays solitaire on internet every night.

WIFE-O-BUCKHEAD

[TigerLikesRooster]

We at FR are counting on your husband to nail another forged document, should Dems try the same trick they used four years go. :-)

[Cheburashka]

The story doesn't answer the two most important questions.

1) Mac or Windows?

2) What is her nomme de FReep?

[PennsylvaniaMom]

2) What is her nomme de FReep?

Hmmmm, wondering...I'll just add...its good to be Queen.

(Of course I'm in Pennyslvania...) PaMom, HHR (oops...)

[TigerLikesRooster]

I don't know. However, she is an iPod user:

Queen buys iPod: report

June 17, 2005 - 10:08AM

What would HM listen to?

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has dipped into the royal purse to snap up an iPod, a report said today.

Britain's biggest-selling daily The Sun said the 79-year-old sovereign had bought a six-gigabyte silver model for £169 ($400.05).

The pocket-sized digital music players can hold up to 10,000 downloaded songs.

[Cheburashka]

The pocket-sized digital music players can hold up to 10,000 downloaded songs.

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Probably has, oh, about 100 songs on it too.

I wonder what she's into. Disco? Grunge? Hip-hop? Heavy metal? Fifteen different cover versions of God Save the Queen?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Apparently, classic. However, who knows what she listens to in private? :-)

[LucyT]

Princess Elizabeth.

[dfwgator]

I wouldn’t expect too much, I’ve heard she doesn’t have a lot to say.

[Vanders9]

classy comments.

[Vanders9]

She probably has a lot to say, but for reasons of propiety, chooses not to say.

[Vanders9]

Check out the google uk entry screen http://www.google.co.uk/

They like to tinker with the logo :)

[Cincinatus]