The Queen made her first official video call today
Queen Elizabeth II has placed up with technology throughout her reign, and about Thursday produced her debut on a digital platform that has been ubiquitous through the coronavirus outbreak-the video conference call.
The 94-year-old monarch logged in from Windsor Castle, where she has been staying through the COVID-19 outbreak, to speak with carers and discuss how they have already been coping.
“Interesting hearing to your entire tales and stories,” she said, according to an excerpt of the call released by Buckingham Palace.
“I’m very glad to have already been in a position to join you today.”
Her daughter Princess Anne, 69, also logged in for an engagement marking a good nationwide week of occurrences highlighting the work of people who look after relatives or good friends with a disability, mental or physical illness.
Alexandra Atkins, 24, who looks after her mother, daddy and grandmother, said it had been a “just unreal” to see the royals on the decision.
“It hit me that I was sitting down in my bedroom speaking with the Princess Royal (Anne) and the queen,” she said.
The queen’s eldest son and heir, Prince Charles, revealed last week he has been “doing the Facetime” to stay in touch with family and friends through the coronavirus lockdown.
“Nonetheless it isn’t the same is it? You actually want to give persons a hug,” he informed Sky News television.
The queen has always proven an interest in new technology.
She sent her first email a long time before a lot of people, from a pc at a British Army base in 1976.
In 2014, she dispatched her first tweet throughout a visit to London’s Research Museum, expressing her pleasure at beginning a fresh gallery and signing it “Elizabeth R”.
The “R” means “regina”, Latin for queen.
More recently, she held a lockdown weekly market from Windsor with Primary Minister Boris Johnson-but about an old-fashioned rotary phone.
