London, December 23, SPA — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II launched a channel on the popular video-sharing website YouTube Sunday, British press reports said, citing Buckingham Palace.
Known as The Royal Channel, the online video service plans to feature the queen’s 50th traditional Christmas Day message for the first time this year, Sunday’s Observer weekly reported.
The queen, who did not use a personal computer until two years ago, was told of the YouTube phenomenon by her grandchildren, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the Observer reported.
The channel was due to be launched Sunday with footage of the queen’s parents’ wedding in 1923 and of Queen Alexandra visiting rose sellers in London in 1917.
Other footage to be included at the launch shows reaction to
George VI’s death, the queen’s accession to the throne and her
coronation, the report said.
The palace plans to add more footage and also to translate it into various languages, the reports said.
The channel can be viewed at www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel, according to a report of DPA.