One is twittering: Her Majesty the Queen's latest foray online
She emails her grandchildren and her Christmas message appears on YouTube. Now the Queen has taken a further bold technological step by becoming the first member of the Royal family to "twitter".
Mandrake hears that a blow-by-blow account
of the Queen's Commonwealth Observance,
to be held on Monday in Westminster Abbey,
will appear
live on the blogging
website
Twitter.
Officials
will send "tweets"
about the rehearsals,
the arrangements and the
service
itself.
The Observance was previously broadcast
live on the
BBC World Service until
four years
ago, but, in keeping with
Her Majesty's desire to
appeal to
the younger generation,
the debut
tweet will, according
to a spokesman for the abbey,
be "pretty spontaneous and in the
spirit of
Twitter".
The service marks the
60th
anniversary
of the
modern commonwealth and
will be
attended
by representatives from
all the
countries.
Last month,
the Queen relaunched
her website
with the help
of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and, in 2008,
the Royal Channel
was added
on YouTube.
It was in
1953 that television cameras
were
allowed into
the abbey for
the first time
for the Coronation.
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