The Queen joins Facebook; lets plebes become "fans."
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Posted Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, at 12:59 PM
According to The Telegraph , this morning at 8 a.m. the British Monarchy entered the "final frontier" of digital technology and created a Facebook profile page . Unfortunately you're not allowed to actually friend any members of the royal family. Nor can you poke them or write, "Duuude, drinks tonight at Lion’s Head? " on their wall, but you can comment "sexxxxy" on all the dashing press photos of Prince Harry doing various gentile society activities . (Though it seems he might have untagged the Nazi costume ones ?) Most importantly, you can demonstrate your devotion to the monarchy by becoming a fan of the page. So far, almost 90,000 people have
Photograph of Queen Elizabeth II from Wikimedia Commons.


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