Britain's queen Elizabeth II joins Facebook

The 84 year old queen has launched a series of official pages on the hottest social networking site.

The British Monarchy page which was launched at 8am had 41,000 Facebook users click its “like” button within just an hour of its launch.

Accompanied by other family members like Princes William and Harry, the queen would feature in videos, photos and news items on the site.

The pages were approved by the queen, though she is not using the site herself, reveal officials.

The page provides elaborate details of the daily engagements of the royal family and users are enabled to comment on them as well.

"The decision went right up to the queen," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to discuss the plan. "If you are going to have an online presence in 2010, you just have to be on Facebook.

Users can leave messages
Users can leave messages for the queen and the Buckingham Palace on the site.

However, they can not send requests to her as the pages are part of a corporate account and not a personal one.

As of now, photographs of the members of the Royal family are being uploaded on the page along with a search button for royal events.

The page provides elaborate details of the daily engagements of the royal family and users are enabled to comment on them as well.

Latest venture of the queen
The page is the latest in the series of the queen’s social and media ventures.

The family had joined Twitter in 2009, created TheRoyalChannel, a video channel on YouTube in 2007 having 32,418 subscribers and is already active on the Flickr photography website.

The films on TheRoyalChannel have been watched almost 8.3million times over the past three years.

In 1997, a website was created for the Buckingham Palace allowing users to track the royal family via Google Maps and even apply for vacancies in the palace.

The new page has been named as "the final frontier" in the world of digital technology by the queen.