Tag: Queen
Tech Digest daily roundup: How Queen witnessed massive tech revolution in lifetime
The year the Queen was born, 1926, saw the first demonstration of the mechanical television, with the first electric telly to follow the year after. It was an era when […]
Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody hits 1 Billion YouTube views
Queen’s music video for Bohemian Rhapsody has notched up a YouTube milestone. It has become the first pre-1990s video to reach one billion views on the platform. 1 billion views […]
Queen shares her first Instagram post at Science Museum launch
The Queen passed another social media milestone by posting an image on Instagram for the first time as she announced the Science Museum’s new summer exhibition – Top Secret. Touching […]
Queen’s Brian May joins NASA mission for New Year
Brian May is seeing in 2019 by unveiling his new single at NASA’s headquarters. The Queen guitarist, 71, is releasing New Horizons, his first solo work in over two decades, […]
88-year-old woman forced to awkwardly tweet to avoid social embarrassment
An 88-year-old woman was forced to feign interest in Twitter today, as she was shown around a new exhibition on the information age by younger colleagues. The woman, who identified […]
Queen's Christmas speech to be broadcast in 3D: Will you be sober enough to notice?
The Queen's speech, the royal's annual address to her subjects, is to be broadcast in 3D for the first time this year. Moving with the times, Elizabeth II had her speech recorded by BSkyB last Friday, with the broadcasters recording…
"One wants an iPad 2" says Queen
Queen Elizabeth II is becoming quite the Apple fangirl. She already has two iPods, and now she's after an iPad 2 aswell. According to The Sun, the 85 year old royal became smitten with the tablet after playing around with…
Obama gives the Queen an iPod
On Barack Obama’s official visit to Buckingham Palace last night, he handed over an iPod to the Queen as a gift, stuffed with video of her 2007 visit to the U.S. and a bunch of tracks from Broadway musicals including “Cats”, “South Pacific” and “Oklahoma!”.
Not that impressive, really, is it? It wasn’t even engraved with the Royal Seal. She’s already got one, too – a 6GB iPod Mini, which Prince Andrew suggested she buy in 2005. Her Maj was a little more classy – giving Obama her traditional gift of a framed photograph of herself and Prince Phillip.
(via Telegraph)
The Queen visits Google
Visiting Google.co.uk today, you’ll see a particular celebrity adorning the logo – Queen Elizabeth II. Her Royal Highness is visiting Google UK today and, along with Prince Phillip, will be meeting staff, competition winners, and selected YouTube users. She’ll be shown demonstrations of Google’s technology, as well as meeting local schoolchildren who’ve been designing new Google logos.
YouTube Video of the Day – Prisoners dance to Radio Ga Ga
What can I say about this video? Basically, the inmates of CPDRC Philippines (a prison) created a dance routine to the tune of Radio Ga Ga by the Queen. Bizarre. Still, it’s better than murdering people eh?
