Queen Elizabeth II's first personal Instagram post has serious royal pedigree
Queen Elizabeth II visits The Science Museum to announce the summer exhibition, Top Secret, and unveil a new space for supporters, to be known as the Smith Centre in London, England.Britain's 92-year-old monarch on Thursday published her first photographs to the verified @theroyalfamily Instagram account from London's Science Museum.
The queen posted two archive images of a letter that Charles Babbage — who is"credited as the world's first computer pioneer," according to the caption — wrote to her great-great-grandfather, Prince Albert, in 1843."In the letter, Babbage told Queen Victoria and Prince Albert about his invention the 'Analytical Engine' upon which the first computer programmes were created by Ada Lovelace, a daughter of Lord Byron," the caption says.
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