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YouTube gets a royal upload

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By Nick Heath

Published: 16 October 2008 15:39 GMT

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The Queen joined the Web 2.0 generation today when she uploaded a clip to YouTube for the first time.

The monarch took the leap into the wired world as she and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, were shown around Google's London HQ, which is down the road from Buckingham Palace.

The Queen, who admitted she did not even own a computer four years ago, joined the ranks of teenage narcissists worldwide by posting her YouTube video, a 1969 reception for British Olympians to The Royal Channel.

Her whirlwind induction continued with a face-to-face meeting with the less than regally named daveyboyz, aka David Bass, and other UK YouTube superstars Peter Oakley and Lauren Luke.

The Royal Channel launched in December 2007 and received more than one million channel views in its first week, making it one of the fastest growing channels of all time.

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