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Queen Elizabeth II, Icon of Tradition, Opens Her Own YouTube Channel to Send Christmas Message.
Britain’s 81-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, considered an icon of traditionalism, launched her own special Royal Channel on YouTube Sunday.
Buckingham Palace also began posting archive and recent footage of the queen and other royals on the channel Sunday, with plans to add new clips regularly.
“The queen always keeps abreast with new ways of communicating with people,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement. “The Christmas message was podcast last year.”
The palace said, “She has always been aware of reaching more people and adapting the communication to suit. This will make the Christmas message more accessible to younger people and those in other countries.”
Its modern video clips show shots of garden parties, state visits, the queen, the many British prime ministers who have served during her reign and a day in the life of her son, Prince Charles.
“I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct. That it is possible for some of you to see me today is just another example of the speed at which things are changing all around us,” the queen said of television at the time.
The color images convey the historical events from the public’s perspective, showing crowds holding street parties and camping out on The Mall – the wide boulevard outside Buckingham Palace – to catch a glimpse of the queen on Coronation Day.
The Royal Channel also includes rarely seen silent news footage of the 1923 wedding of the queen’s parents, then known as the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
On Tuesday, Queen Elizabeth II’s annual Christmas speech can once again be downloaded as a podcast from http://www.royal.gov.uk . It also is being made available on television in HD for the first time.
[Source Agence Press]
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