They’re letting the Queen tweet! #ThugLyfe #MonarchSteeze #Gilded #Blessed #IWokeUpLikeThis
The Queen sat in one of her most gilded rooms at Buckingham Palace and one of her staffers placed an iPad in front of her. “Your Majesty might want to tweet out a thank you to one’s grateful servants for one’s birthday messages,” the staffer probably said. The Queen agreed, suspiciously. She is 90 years old, after all. How does one “tweet”? Does one sign one’s tweets? What is this “hashtag” thing they speak of? So here are the Queen’s tweets, which she apparently did herself?
I am most grateful for the many digital messages of goodwill I have received and would like to thank you all for your kindness. Elizabeth R.
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) June 21, 2016
This tweet was personally sent by Her Majesty The Queen
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) June 21, 2016
The Queen has tweeted to thank all who have sent messages of goodwill on social media for her Birthday #Queenat90 pic.twitter.com/twpdSJeGXf
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) June 21, 2016
I like that the Queen-on-Twitter is pretty much what you would expect, that she probably doesn’t get it, but she’s been coached, and she’s so old-school that she thinks one must sign one’s tweets. Maybe she gets it more than we will never know, though. Maybe she’s set up Twitter accounts for all of her dogs. Maybe the Queen is going to drop some wisdom from the @LizzieWindsor handle. #QueenYall #Palace4Real #GameofThrones #Brooches #FeministHats
Photos courtesy of the Palace, WENN.
This post and your hashtags are gold, Kaiser! I swear I’m screaming with laughter 😭😭😭
So breathless right now. Gonna read it for a second time.
Next she’ll be on snapchat.
The Queen is on Twitter! Who knew?
Not I, Raven!
#Brooches and #FeministHats for the win.
On another note, I feel like that room doesn’t have enough gold.
-Snazzy
If there was an account just for her jewels, brooches and dogs, I will be all over it.
#FeministHats is my favorite, but I’m surprised that there’s no hashtag for the dogs. #BarkingtonPalace and #RoyalCorgis maybe?
Also yes, that room needs more gold. Maybe thread some into that carpet?
There is a website dedicated to royals jewels. It’s called the Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor and there is an entire section devoted to her brooches #broochgamestrong
Barkington Palace! ha ha ha
-Snazzy
She deserves better heirs
Why are her hands so pink?
Can be many reasons for red hands. Under active thyroid, low blood pressure, from being cold, stress. I remember my grandmother’s hands were pink when she was old.
I had to go back to see what you were talking about. Allergic reaction? Psoriasis? I hope it’s not bothersome.
I’ve also noticed that many times Charles’ hands seem very pink/red and swollen looking. Too a lesser degree Willnot’s as well on a few occasions… more slightly puffy/swollen than something really obvious and painful looking (like Charles’ hands in some pics). Maybe something genetic?
Prince Philip had to stop wearing his wedding ring, said to be because of swelling due to arthritis. Wouldn’t be surprising to see the same thing in his 90 year old wife.
Absolutely!!!!!
I love that she signed her last initial. What is the R for anyway?????
Not her initial; R is for “regina” (“queen” in Latin).
Sarah: Further to Alix’s translation, the signature is essentially: Elizabeth, Queen.
If the Queen can tweet, however coached and hand held, there really is no excuse for the social media functional ignorance of the younger royals.
This ^^^
I wish she was immortal.
+1
Me too. I love her!
Me, too. It does make me feel a very wee bit sorry for Charles. I would not want to step into her shoes.
Me too! I think The Queen is adorable and elegant all at the same time. I adore her!
Me too. She’s amazing.
Yes!!!
The pop-up ad (in my browser) right under the photo of the Queen at her desk said FEAR NO TRASH.
Perfection.
If she got glasses just for the computer, she wouldn’t have to sit so far back. ; )
I know, right?
@Queen_UK for what the queen really thinks. 🙂
This is a wonderful way to start the day! Now I have an image of the Queen running around clutching her iPad because she’s learned how to tweet and nobody is going to take it away from her dammit!!
She looks fantastic in vibrant colors.
Indeed! She has my vote for best dressed monarch in the world.
#WardrobeOnFleek
Yes, I was going to comment on her very bright colored outfits. Very….um, bright.
LOVE this post! Great way to start the day! Thanks!
I loved some of the responses, inc.
NO WORRIES QUEEN
kween
YAAAS QUEEN
&etc
Does anyone know what the “R” stands for? I thought the royal family’s last name was Windsor…Educate me, please!
Regina – Latin for queen. If she were a king, it would be rex.
So interesting! Thank you!
Ah, just figured out why the city of Regina in Saskatchewan is named what it is. Duh. We always say, “Rhymes with…”
I was going to ask the same thing. Very interesting! I was thinking maybe it was for Royal.
Prior to India’s independence, when the British monarch was also Emperor of India (or Empress, in Victoria’s case) it was “RI” for “Rex Imperator”.
I won’t lie, I love the thought that the subcontinent gaining independence scalped an entire initial off the monarchy’s personal signatures – they’re suddenly down from ‘RI’ to just ‘R’.
I love the second and third tweets. So like a Grandma! I’d bet she really wanted to send out a fourth one that just said, “good-bye” but got held back.
And I agree with the above poster who said she deserves better from her heirs. Nobody does queen like Queen Elizabeth.
She is awesome!
Some people should take notes. . .
That was excellent! I’m still hiding from my huge mess up calling her HRH in error. Thanks LAX for correcting me, I knew it was wrong when I typed it but ugh, couldn’t fix. Oh well..
I so am loving the hat game of late! I hope they do an exhibit of her entire hat collection, that would be awesome!
On a side – just read Willnot was watching England in Euros – does this mean he missed Father’s Day to watch football? Oh, and GO WALES!!!!
I like the idea she’s got multiple handlers, secretly tweeting but no one knows.
I am annoyed with the Queen today. Apparently she has been asking her dinner party guests to give “three good reasons why the UK should stay in the EU.” I’ll give her one good reason (or maybe two): because if we leave, the pound will drop like a stone and we’ll send ourselves into recession. That doesn’t matter to her, of course, but it damned well matters to me.
I’m screaming, those tweets are SO like what I’d expect from the Queen! From the signature right down to the tweet confirming that yes, she herself was the one hitting the ‘publish’/’tweet’ or whatever button, and finally – the hashtag! (which I would bet money she had to be coached into)
I love this.