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Her Majesty’s Royal Facebook Page

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Posted on Nov 8, 2010

If you’re not on Facebook, you’re officially more out of touch than the queen of England. Her Majesty, who already has a presence on YouTube, Twitter and Flickr, is starting up a monarchy funpage so you can more easily keep track of her business. Just remember, one does not poke the queen.  —PZS

BBC:

The Queen is set to have an official presence on Facebook when a British Monarchy page launches on the internet-based social networking site.

Buckingham Palace says it is not a personal profile page, but users can “like” the service and receive updates on their news feed.

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By tropicgirl, November 8, 2010 at 10:00 pm Link to this comment

Can I shit on it? Or send a reasonable facsimilie?

This murderous, princess-killer, equity-stealing, pig
is no more a queen than Leticia McEvil of the Borgia of
Italy.

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