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The Queen wrote her first Instagram post during a visit to the Science Museum.
The 92-year-old monarch paid a visit to London’s Science Museum on Thursday to announce its summer exhibition and was met by dozens of cheering children who waved Union Jack flags as she arrived at the Science Museum in London’s South Kensington today.
To mark the occasion, she wrote her first ever post on Instagram for the official Royal Family’s social media page, and signed it off ‘Eilzabeth R’.
She shared the image on the official royal family account of a letter from the 19th-century inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage to Prince Albert.
The Queen was in the Science Museum’s new Smith Centre and was applauded after she shared the post on the royal Instagram account which was launched in 2013 and now has 4.8 million followers.
She wrote: “Today, as I visit the Science Museum I was interested to discover a letter from the Royal Archives, written in 1843 to my great-great-grandfather Prince Albert. Charles Babbage, credited as the world’s first computer pioneer, designed the ‘Difference Engine,’ of which Prince Albert had the opportunity to see a prototype in July 1843.”
View this post on InstagramADVERTISEMENT Charles Babbage, credited as the world’s first computer pioneer, designed the “Difference Engine”, of which Prince Albert had the opportunity to see a prototype in July 1843. In the letter, Babbage told Queen Victoria and Prince Albert about his invention the “Analytical Engine” upon which the first computer programmes were created by Ada Lovelace, a daughter of Lord Byron.
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“In the letter, Babbage told Queen Victoria and Prince Albert about his invention the ‘Analytical Engine’ upon which the first computer programs were created by Ada Lovelace, a daughter of Lord Byron,” she continued.
“Today, I had the pleasure of learning about children’s computer 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.”
“We are honored that while opening The Smith Centre at the Science Museum Your Majesty shared a post on Instagram for the first time,” the Science Museum wrote in a comment on the image.“
“We’re thrilled that the image is of correspondence from the Royal Archive between Charles Babbage and Your Majesty’s great-great-grandfather Prince Albert about the Difference Engine No.1 on display in our Making the Modern World gallery.”
During her visit to the Science Museum, The Queen also viewed iconic communications objects from throughout history, including an Enigma machine and the computer on which the World Wide Web was created.
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