Insta-Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II makes first Instagram post

Queen Elizabeth II has posted her first Instagram image.

The media-savvy queen on Thursday posted from the Science Museum to help promote the museum’s summer exhibition.

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Using an iPad, she shared an image on the official royal family Instagram account, of a letter from 19th-century inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

The queen’s post said: “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.”

The royal Instagram account was launched in 2013 and has 4.6 million followers.

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