Fu The first British monarch to send an email, back in 1976, and the first to use social media. The first to make his coronation transmit on TV, in 1953, and four years later, also his Christmas discourse to the nation. But the tech passion of Regina Elisabetta He didn’t stop there. His nephew William recently revealed that his grandmother never walked away from a gadget that found everyone most useful: her old iPad.
Queen Elizabeth’s precious iPad
The grandchildren William and Harry had been talking about the new gadget in 2011, who had shown her all possible uses. At the 85 -year -old sovereign, the sovereign immediately ordered him by his collaborators to Buckingham Palace but never used to keep in touch with friends and relatives. AND accustomed to watching television in its comfortable living roomShe didn’t like watching movies and programs on such a small screen. Instead, she had immediately identified the use that affected her most of all.
A gadget at the service of Elisabetta’s horse racing passion
Passionate about horse racing and breeder of several thoroughbred champions who went down in history, Elisabetta had immediately understood that, thanks to this comfortable gadget to take to the handbag, he could have “connected” easily with His beloved horseseven when it was hundreds of kilometers away from the Royal stables.
Queen Elizabeth’s first tweet at the Museum of Science, London, October 2014 (Getty Images)
The direct technological wire with the Royal stables
Just bought, the Queen asked one of her most experienced collaborators to connect the iPad to the numerous cameras positioned in all corners of the Royal Stables of Sandingham and other Royal estates. A direct line that allowed her, therefore, to keep in constant and visual contact with its stoliers and the trainers of its champions.
Elisabetta II observes a demonstration of the website dedicated to Royal Family, London, March 1997 (Getty Images)
Elisabetta assisted live on the birth of her foals
The queen could thus control in person, and every day, What was going on in all his stable. And if one of his horses was pregnant, the sovereign connected clearly in advance to attend birth. David Somers, head of the stables, spoke to her on the phone to explain the various phases in detail and to listen to the many advice of the expert Elizabeth.
The queen also used an old cell phone
The queen, who passed away on 8 September 2022 in Balmoral, Scotland, was also one of the first in the Royal Family to order a mobile phone. To help her understand how the grandchildren, the sons of Anna, Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips were working. Real lessons that convinced Elizabeth to make his own immune mobile phone from any attack On the part of Hacker, by encouraging all his movements.
The chats with Anna and the stable manager
The cell phone, frequently recharged by the queen’s assistant, Angela Kelly, was an old, small model, but also equipped with a camera. Elizabeth always kept him in the handbag or in the pockets of her old coat, and considered it very precious. During his solitary walks in his gardens he could, in fact, contact for a chat and a gossip royal Anna, the only one of the children with whom he remained in constant contact. And he never forgot to call John Warren, head of Elizabeth’s horse racing programs. Just for a daily update on the growth of newborn foals.