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Modern monarch: Queen Elizabeth sends her first tweet

Queen Elizabeth has proven to the world she is a modern monarch. The 88-year-old royal sent out her first tweet from her office's Twitter account, British Monarchy.
Queen Elizabeth types out her first tweet.

Her Majesty was opening a new gallery about communication  communications revolutions at the Science Museum in London on Friday morning.

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โ€œIt is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R,โ€ wrote The Queen on a tablet on a podium.

Her tweet received more than 6,000 retweets in the first hour.

The royalโ€™s Twitter account was set up in 2009 to provide โ€œupdates, pictures and videos from Buckingham Palace about the work and activities of The Royal Family and the institution of Monarchyโ€. It currently has 850,000 followers.

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