25 July 2010Last updated at 07:12

The Queen joins photo website Flickr

Royal interest in technology dates back to 1878 when Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone to Queen Victoria. She described it as "quite extraordinary".(pic: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1854, by Roger Fenton).

Princess Elizabeth at the age of one in 1927. Ten years later her father's coronation would become the first televised outside broadcast (picture by Marcus Adams).

The then Princess Elizabeth aged three with her parents (who would become King George VI and Queen Elizabeth).

The Queen's annual Christmas speech was podcast for the first time in 2006, 30 years after she became the first Monarch to send an email, from an army airbase in 1976 (pictures shows the Queen with South African president Jacob Zuma in March 2010)

The Queen, pictured arriving with Prince Philip at the Royal Garden Party 2010, launched a YouTube channel in 2007. A year later she uploaded a video at Google's London headquarters (picture by Ian Jones)

This picture of Windsor Castle was taken in 1860, 150 years before it appeared on Flickr (by Roger Fenton).

The Queen joined Twitter in 2009 and her feed, twitter.com/Britishmonarchy now has nearly 50,000 followers, although she does not respond to individuals (she is pictured greeting the Ambassador Werner Matias Romero of El Salvador in 2010).

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The Queen joins photo website Flickr

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