Britain's queen takes up YouTube

　　Queen Elizabeth II is posting her traditional Christmas message on YouTube for the first time through a special royal channel on the video-sharing website which launches Sunday.

    Queen Elizabeth II is posting her traditional Christmas message on YouTube for the first time through a special royal channel on the video-sharing website which launches Sunday.

    The festive broadcast will appear at on December 25, but before then, viewers will be able watch past Christmas messages as well as archive and contemporary footage of Britain's royal family.

    The royal channel -- www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel -- features a regal homepage illustrated with a photograph of Buckingham Palace in London flanked by guards in bearskin hats and red tunics.

    "The queen always keeps abreast with new ways of communicating with people," Buckingham Palace said in a statement. "The Christmas message was podcast last year."

    The palace said, "She has always been aware of reaching more people and adapting the communication to suit. This will make the Christmas message more accessible to younger people and those in other countries."

    The footage of the queen's 1957 Christmas TV broadcast will remind viewers that TV once was as groundbreaking a creation as Internet is today.

    "I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct. That it is possible for some of you to see me today is just another example of the speed at which things are changing all around us," the queen said of television at the time.

    The Royal Channel also includes rarely seen footage of the 1923 wedding of the queen's parents, then known as the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

    On Tuesday, Queen Elizabeth II's annual Christmas speech can once again be downloaded as a podcast from http://www.royal.gov.uk. It also is being made available on television in high definition for the first time.(Agencies)

女王也趕潮流 聖誕致辭將登Youtube

    英國女王伊麗莎白二世的聖誕致辭將首次登上Youtube視頻分享網站。

    據悉，Youtube網站已于上周日開通“英國王室頻道”，女王的聖誕致辭將于12月25日播出。目前，用戶可在該頻道瀏覽女王歷年的聖誕講話視頻以及英國王室近期和歷史上的一些視頻錄像資料。

    英國王室頻道有一個專門的“皇家主頁”，頁面（標題）以地處倫敦的白金漢宮為背景，兩側各有一列頭戴熊皮帽子、身穿紅色上衣的衛兵。

    白金漢宮在一份聲明中說：“女王一直緊跟潮流，不斷採用新的方式與人們交流。去年女王的聖誕致辭就登上了‘播客’。”

    白金漢宮說：“女王一直希望與更多的人交流，並不斷嘗試符合時代潮流的交流方式。這將使更多的年輕人及其它國家的人聽到並看到女王的聖誕致辭。”

    1957年女王聖誕電視講話的錄像會讓人們想起曾經的電視時代，當時的電視與今天的互聯網一樣，具有劃時代意義。

    女王在那一年的聖誕致辭中說：“我非常希望這個新媒介能使我的講話更親切、更直接。今天大家能在電視上看到我，再一次說明了世界的發展有多麼迅速。”

    “英國王室頻道”還包括1923年女王父母約克公爵和伊麗莎白?鮑伊斯-萊恩夫人鮮為人見的婚禮錄像。

    本周二，英國王室官方網站（http://www.royal.gov.uk）將再次提供女王的聖誕致辭“播客”下載。此外，今年女王的聖誕講話還將首次通過高清電視直播。