Queen Elizabeth II Sends Her First Tweet

October 24, 2014 7:06 AM EDT

Britain’s monarch dabbled in social media on Friday by sending her very first tweet.

It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R.
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) October 24, 2014

While opening the Information Age exhibit at London’s Science Museum, the Queen, referring to herself as Elizabeth R., tapped out her first tweet from the official Twitter account of Buckingham Palace.

A statement from the museum said director Ian Blatchford had invited Queen Elizabeth to mark the occasion on social media. “I mentioned earlier that Queen Victoria took a great interest in the invention of the telephone, and Your Majesty has followed in this tradition of embracing new technology,” he told her. “You made the first live Christmas broadcast in 1957 and an event relished by historians took place on [March 26, 1976], when you became the first monarch to send an email, during a visit to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. May I now invite you to join me so that you may send your first tweet.”

The tweet’s author was then verified by the @BritishMonarchy account with a follow-up tweet and a photo of the Queen sending the message.

#TheQueenTweets pic.twitter.com/jz69LOlGcD
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) October 24, 2014

The last tweet was sent personally by The Queen from her official Twitter account @BritishMonarchy #TheQueenTweets
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) October 24, 2014

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