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The Queen, who shares video clips on YouTube and texts her grandchildren, has now sent her first official email to young people to celebrate 60 years of the Commonwealth.
The message will arrive in the youngsters' inboxes today on the diamond anniversary of the Commonwealth London Declaration. It is marked from "Buckingham Palace" and the subject field says: "A Message from Her Majesty the Queen." The email is signed Elizabeth R, the same as on all her official correspondence.
As the theme of the 60th Anniversary is: "Serving a new generation", Buckingham Palace invited youngsters from across the Commonwealth to write a blog about their typical day. They were also asked to say what the Commonwealth meant to them.
The messages came from as far afield as Belize, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, St Lucia and a few closer to home such as Birmingham in the West Midlands. The Queen, who is addressed as Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness or Ma'am, was actually referred to as the "Boss" of the Commonwealth in one the blogs which came from the Australian Bush.
The Queen, who has always stayed abreast of developments in technology, was so taken by informal and chatty tone of the blogs that she decided to send an official reply and, for the first time, it was in the form of an email. The Queen, who privately emails her closest friends and her grandchildren including Prince William and Prince Harry, drafted the message herself.
A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: "The Queen thought it would be a good idea to respond to the children online because that is the way they communicate."
The Queen will tonight host a reception for 240 representatives of the 53 Commonwealth countries at Buckingham Palace. The Prime Minister will be one of the many Commonwealth Prime Ministers who will attend.
The Queen, who mastered the art of using a computer three years ago, has become fascinated by the internet. She launched the first Royal Channel on YouTube, her Christmas broadcast was podcast for the first time in 2006, and last year she visited Google and the headquarters of Vodaphone last year.
The YouTube phenomenon was explained to the Queen by, among others, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, her granddaughters, who are also fans of the social networking site Facebook. Prince Harry taught the Queen how to send text messages on her mobile telephone.
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