Queen's photos go online at Flickr

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LONDON | Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:05am BST

LONDON (Reuters) - Buckingham Palace said on Sunday it has launched an account with online photo management site Flickr.

The Monarchy Website Flickr account streams both up-to-the-minute images of royal engagements and archive photographs from the royal collection.

The launch is timed to coincide with the summer opening of Buckingham Palace, as the site highlights photographs specially commissioned for the palace's exhibition "The Queen's Year," which opens on July 27.

The Flickr account also features historic photographs from current Royal Collection exhibitions at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle and on loan to museums and galleries around the UK.

They include masterpieces of early British photography collected by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Flickr is the latest in a line of social media to be harnessed by Buckingham Palace. In 2007 a Royal You Tube channel was launched, along with a new royal website. A British monarchy Twitter account followed in 2009.

(Reporting Isabel Coles: Editing by Steve Addison)
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TCW wrote:
The Queen and Her advisors and courtiers are right “up to the minute” and I suspect Her Majesty and Her family is quite technically “savvy”.

One must keep up with the times, must not one?

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