LONDON — The Associated Press Last updated on Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009 08:58PM EDT
— She was the first monarch to send an e-mail. She has her own Web site. And on Thursday, Queen Elizabeth II uploaded video to YouTube during a visit to Google's British headquarters.
The company celebrated the queen's visit by creating a special version of its google.co.uk home page, which featured a silhouette of her head as the second “G” and a regal crown atop the “E” in their logo.
During the visit, the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, saw a demonstration of the company's technology and met schoolchildren who won a competition to design their own Google “doodles” — what the Mountain View, Calif.-based company calls special editions of their blue, green, red and yellow logo.
The royal couple met users of the Google-owned YouTube video Web site, including Peter Oakley, an 81-year-old known as “Geriatric1927.” Mr. Oakley's videos on the site earned him a nomination for a YouTube award in 2006.
The queen herself has a presence on YouTube — she launched the Royal Channel in December. There are 54 videos on the channel, which range from the Queen's 1957 Christmas message to a day in the life of Prince Charles. On Thursday, she uploaded archive footage to the channel of a 1969 reception at Buckingham Palace for British Olympians.
After their visit to Google, the queen and Prince Philip planned to host a reception for nearly 600 British Olympians at the palace, the monarch's London home.
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