UK royals set up YouTube channel
Sunday, 23 December 2007 15:40Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is to post her traditional Christmas message on YouTube this year.
A special royal channel on the video-sharing website has been launched in an attempt to make the monarchy more accessible to younger people and to those in other countries.
The channel was established in October, but is now being publicly launched.
This year's broadcast will be on the site from 3pm on 25 December, but viewers are already able to watch past messages as well as archive and contemporary footage of the Windsor royal family.
The royal channel - www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel - features a homepage illustrated with a photograph of Buckingham Palace in London flanked by guards in bearskin hats and red tunics.
18 archive items, the earliest dating back to 1917, are available on the site.
The televised message, an annual broadcast looking back on the year's events, is also available as a podcast.
