Queen Publishes First Instagram Post

AKIPRESS.COM - The Queen has posted a photo on the official royal family Instagram account for the first time.

She was applauded after sharing an image of a letter from 19th century inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage to Prince Albert.The Queen used an iPad to share the photo as she looked at exhibits in the Science Museum's summer exhibition - Top Secret.

During her long reign, the Queen - Britain's longest-reigning monarch - has encountered many technological changes. She was the first person to have her Coronation filmed when television cameras were allowed inside Westminster Abbey in 1953. More than half a million extra TV sets were sold in the weeks running up to the historic event.

She has also seen the introduction of colour television, mobile phones and the internet. class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink= View this post on Instagram 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.

Charles Babbage, credited...