Queen takes to Twitter to thank wellwishers for 90th birthday messages
This is the monarch's second ever tweet
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Your support makes all the difference.The Queen might have witnessed everything from the fall of the British Empire to the Berlin Wall but she still hasn’t quite got to grips with the Great British Twittersphere.
Although this appears to be something the nonagenarian monarch is slowly trying her hand at. Today Queen Elizabeth II sent a tweet thanking everyone who sent her 90th birthday wishes via social media. For the record, this is Her Majesty's second ever tweet.
“I am most grateful for the many digital messages of goodwill I have received and would like to thank you all for your kindness,” she wrote, signing the message of “Eizabeth R”.
In case anyone wondered whether the tweet had been penned by one of her press officers rather than the Queen herself, minutes later another tweet appeared confirming: “This tweet was personally sent by Her Majesty The Queen.”
The Queen celebrated her 90th birthday on 21 April and this was followed by a host of events spanning the three months between April and June.
The monarch sent her first ever tweet in 2014 when she opened a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London but has taken a leisurely break since then.
She also signed this tweet off Elizabeth R. “It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R.“
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