Queen Elizabeth's Posh New Web Page

Her Majesty's uploads are ready on a glorified Facebook page fans are hailing as QE2.0

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Queen Elizabeth II studies the new layout of the Monarchy Web site.

And it came to pass that Her Majesty the Queen of England decided her website needed a little juice-up. Thus, on the 13th day of February in the Year of our Lord 2009, she stood before her subjects and held aloft the royal remote control and behold, there appeared on a screen behind her what nobles and seers would come to call QE2.0, the new and improved official website of the British Monarchy .

No bottles of champagne were broken over laptops, but the man many credit with founding the internet, Tim Berners Lee, was present at...

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