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You all know I like the British Royal Family. Except for Charles. But he did do a pretty good job raising the boys. Today Queen Elizabeth tweeted using the @BritishMonarchy account. Which I’m now following 🙂 She’s 88 and still going strong. I like that, too 🙂 On a day like today, I hope you enjoy this sort of fun news as much as I do.

Hear ye, tweet ye! Queen Elizabeth II sends first tweet

The queen has taken her reign to Twitter.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II sent her first tweet from the official British Monarchy account on Friday to open the Science Museum’s Information Age exhibition in London and what better way to do it than partake in a bit of old meets new?

“It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R,” her majesty wrote. (That “R” stands for Regina, or queen).

The blue-clad royal and her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visited the Science Museum on Friday morning to open the museum’s first permanent gallery dedicated to the history of information and communications technology, the Guardian said. The queen was reportedly goaded by museum director Ian Blatchford to share the tweet.

“I mentioned earlier that Queen Victoria took a great interest in the invention of the telephone, and Your Majesty has followed in this tradition of embracing new technology,” Blatchford said (via the Guardian). “You made the first live Christmas broadcast in 1957 and an event relished by historians took place on 26 March 1976, when you became the first monarch to send an email, during a visit to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. May I now invite you to join me so that you may send your first tweet.”

Then she removed her white glove to send it from a touch screen in front of 600 guests.