When you see that your country's royal family now has a YouTube page you see how far reaching this new internet is. For a group of people loved by some (with scarily fanatic members amongst them), hated by others and generally ignored by the rest. Except, that is, for the Christmas broadcast because its on a number of channels and everyone tends to be too stuffed to ignore it. Interestingly you can watch the first ever televised broadcast (from 1957) on the YouTube channel as well as other less interesting videos.

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This just leaves me wondering if the Queen will now begin releasing videos of animé characters or poetry, Charles will dye his hair black with an emo fringe and Philip will start abusing everyone in the comments and eventually get banned for racism.