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Christmas greetings from Buckingham Palace

by Abha Malpani (RSS feed) on Dec 23rd 2007 at 2:00PM

If you've ever been curious about what goes on behind close doors at Buckingham Palace, now is your opportunity to get more than a peek: the Queen has launched her own You Tube channel!

Celebrating 50 years of the Queen's first televised Christmas address, this year, you will be able to watch her Christmas speech on the video-sharing network. At the moment, the site opens to her Christmas talk from 1957.

Called the Royal Channel, it currently has 18 videos that go as far back as 1917 and include: the Queen Mother's wedding (1923), Palace garden parties, her accession and coronation, her relationship with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and part one of a day in the life of Prince Charles. It's their way of being more accessible to the youth and people around the world.

Not home videos and nothing close to reality television, it's merely an official peek (but a peek nonetheless) into many aspects of the royal family's life.

Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Europe, United Kingdom, Video, Internet Tools, News

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