The Queen joins Flickr

The Royal family has launched a Flickr account (pro!) with 600 official photos, some dating back to Queen Victoria's reign . The Queen has made quite an effort in social media of late, with a Twitter account, YouTube account - though it has to be said this isn't a textbook example of using social media to engage an audience being, as it is, entirely one way, comments disabled, the works. The Royal Family also revamped its own ( really quite impressive ) website last year and called in at Google the year before that. The Flickr addition, however, is by far the most useful of these token projects, putting some fascinating and unique photographs into the public realm. Curiously, the embedding function has been partly disabled, though officials told AP that the public could embed the photos on blogs and on social media sites.