Queen uses a tablet to tweet her thanks for all the birthday messages she has received for her 90th
A picture accompanied the tweet which showed Her Majesty about to press send on the personal message
THE Queen has today sent a tweet to thank everyone on social media who sent her a digital birthday message.
She wrote a thank you message and signed it, before it was confirmed as having been written and tweeted by the monarch herself with a secondary tweet sent by the Royal Family account.
Her Royal Highness today wrote: "I am most grateful for the many digital messages of goodwill I have received and would like to thank you all for your kindness. Elizabeth R."
The tweet was met with enthusiastic responses soon after it went live, with a few people hoping that she would soon be posting selfies of herself and her beloved corgis, like many other social media users and their pets.
The Royal Family account later posted a picture of Her Majesty sitting at a beautifully ornate gold and wood desk in Windsor Castle, about to send her tweet on a tablet, with the message: "The Queen has tweeted to thank all who have sent messages of goodwill on social media for her birthday #Queenat90."
This message ended with an extremely apt crown emoji.
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For this photograph, which has already been shared and liked almost 10,000 times in two hours, the Queen is dressed in a pink dress decorated with orange and blue flowers and wearing pearls.
She thanked social media users for well wishes during her 90th birthday celebrations, for which a host of events have been held throughout the country during the past few months.
Although not a regular twitter user, this is not the first time the Queen has tweeted.
She sent her first ever tweet in 2014 when opening a new Science Museum Exhibition, with the message: "It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the Science Museum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R."
Lewis Wiltshire, senior director of media partnerships at Twitter UK, said: "The Queen's milestone birthday was a huge occasion on Twitter, with users expressing their love and admiration for Her Majesty's lifelong commitment on her 90th birthday.
"It's really exciting to see the Queen directly respond to the Great British public for their birthday wishes on the platform with her second ever tweet."
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