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Insta-Monarch Queen Elizabeth Makes First Instagram Post

by Associated Press

   LONDON --

   Queen Elizabeth II has posted her first Instagram image.

   The media-savvy queen posted from the Science Museum Thursday to help
   promote the museum's summer exhibition.

   Using an iPad, she shared an image on the official royal family
   Instagram account of a letter from 19th century inventor and
   mathematician Charles Babbage to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

   The queen's post said: "In the letter, Babbage told Queen Victoria and
   Prince Albert about his invention, the Analytical Engine, upon which
   the first computer programs were created by Ada Lovelace, a daughter of
   Lord Byron."

   The royal Instagram account was launched in 2013 and has 4.6 million
   followers.