Her Majesty’s Twitters

This is not her first Internet venture, however. She already has her own YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalChannel where you can watch her performing a variety of fascinating Royal functions such as presiding at state banquets and visiting cat and dog homes. And she is a regular tweeter on Twitter (though one supposes that possibly some of her various attendants of ladies in waiting might occasionally help out with this).

I was interested to note that the Royal Twitter feed has almost 70,000 followers. But how many Twitter feeds does Her Majesty herself follow? Answer: 0.

As I still vaguely entertain the hope that Her Majesty may one day see fit to bestow upon me some trifling title, honour, estate or knighthood for my services to trash journalism, I shall resist the (admittedly very tempting) urge to draw any conclusions from this fact about the nature of the relationship between the British Monarch and her subjects....