The Queen made her first post on Instagram on Thursday during a visit to London’s Science Museum to unveil its summer exhibition, ‘Top Secret’ and formally open the new Smith Centre.
She was met by dozens of cheering children who enthusiastically waved Union Jack flags as she arrived at the Science Museum in London’s South Kensington.
She took her fans by surprise away from a regular expected selfie posts as her inaugural update, to sharing a letter sent by 19th-century mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage to Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, her great-great-grandfather.
she wrote in the post on the Royal Family’s official Instagram account,which was set up in 2013 to share images and content of The Royal Family, their work, family celebrations and anniversaries and to invite interaction from followers across the world. To date, the account currently has 4.5 million followers.
In a similar act, The Queen launched the first British Monarchy web site in 1997. Her Majesty sent her first e-mail in 1976, during an engagement at a military base.
To mark the occasion, using a classic touch screen iPad at the museum, she wrote: “Today, as I visit the Science Museum I was interested to discover a letter from the Royal Archives, written in 1843 to my great-great-grandfather Prince Albert,”
“Today, I had the pleasure of learning about children’s computer coding initiatives and it seems fitting to me that I publish this Instagram post, at the Science Museum which has long championed technology, innovation and inspired the next generation of inventors,” she added to the account’s 4.6 million followers and sealed it with a signature “Elizabeth R”.
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A Buckingham Palace spokesman also said: ‘The Queen has long been a supporter of digital communications tools, and she sent her first tweet during her last visit to the Science Museum in 2014.
‘In the letter, in1843,Babbage told Queen Victoria and Prince Albert about his invention the ‘Analytical Engine’ upon which the first computer programmes were created by Ada Lovelace, a daughter of Lord Byron, In which a machine which could perform calculations using punched cards and had a memory unit to store numbers.
As part of the visit to the Science Museum, the Queen also viewed iconic communications objects from throughout history, including an enigma machine and the computer on which the World Wide Web was created.
Nevertheless,The Royal family has urged users to show “courtesy, kindness and respect” when interacting with its online posts, threatening to block users or refer people to police if they failed to adhere to the rules.
