How the Queen embraced technology during her reign
by Dan Milmo Global technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#63ENC)
Late monarch recognised the immediacy and connection that advanced technology could bring
When the Queen gave the first televised Christmas broadcast by a British monarch in 1957 she displayed a willingness to embrace technological shifts in how the institution was seen and interacted with the public.
Over the decades, that journey has included cooperating with fly-on-the-wall documentaries, establishing a Buckingham Palace website and, at the end, an outpouring of grief on social media platforms that the royal family too had embraced in recent years.
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