Interesting to listen to all of your tales and stories, said the Queen in the video call.
Britain:
Queen Elizabeth II followed technology throughout her reign and debuted on Thursday on a digital platform that became ubiquitous during the coronavirus epidemic – video teleconferencing.
The 94-year-old monarch connected from Windsor Castle, where she was staying during the COVID-19 epidemic, to speak with caregivers and discuss how they were coping.
“Interesting to listen to all of your tales and stories,” she said, according to an excerpt from the call published by Buckingham Palace.
“I am very pleased to have been able to join you today.”
Her daughter, Princess Anne, 69, also signed on for a pledge marking a national week of events highlighting the work of caregivers of parents and friends with disabilities, mental or physical illness.
Alexandra Atkins, 24, who cares for her mother, father and grandmother, said it was “just unreal” to see the royal family on call.
“I realized that I was sitting in my room talking to the Princess Royal (Anne) and the Queen,” she said.
The Queen’s eldest and heir, Prince Charles, revealed last week that he had “done the Facetime” to stay in touch with family and friends during the coronavirus lockout.
“But it’s not the same is it? You really want to hug people,” he told Sky News.
The Queen has always shown an interest in new technologies.
She sent her first email long before most people did, from a computer at a British army base in 1976.
In 2014, she sent her first tweet during a visit to the Science Museum in London, expressing her pleasure in opening a new gallery and signing it “Elizabeth R”.
The “R” means “regina”, Latin for queen.
Most recently, she held a weekly Windsor lockout hearing with Prime Minister Boris Johnson – but on an old-fashioned rotary phone.
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