Elizabeth R's first Instagram post
The Sydney Morning Herald
Saturday 9 March 2019
The Royal Family Instagram account has been around since 2013, but on
Thursday the Queen took things into her own hands. Queen Elizabeth II
published her very first Instagram post memorialising her visit to
London's Science Museum, where she opened the museum's new Smith Centre.
The queen ['off with her head' - apparently decapitated after a first
paragraph of capitalisation] posted two photos of correspondence from
the royal archives written to her great-great-grandfather Prince Albert
by mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage in 1843.
In the letter, Babbage told Queen Victoria and Prince Albert about his
invention the 'Analytical Engine' on which the first computer programs
were created by Ada Lovelace, a daughter of Lord Byron.
"Today, I had the pleasure of learning about children's computing coding
initiatives and it seems fitting to me that I publish this Instagram
post, at the Science Museum which has long championed technology,
innovation and inspired the next generation of inventors", she wrote,
signing off as "Elizabeth R".
[Is the Smith Centre named after Winston Smith, I wonder.]
[Interestingly, neither the Kenso Museum's web-pages nor its Map makes
any mention of a "Smith Centre".
[The only place it seems to appear is in an entry about Stephen Hawking,
who is reported as having had lunch there:
https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/stephen-hawking-visits-the-science-museum/
[Time is relative after all, so the facts that the Queen opened it in
March 2019, that Hawking had lunch there in February 2012, and that
Hawking passed away in March 2018, are entirely explicable.]
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