Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch
Queen Elizabeth was never really supposed to be a monarch, but she was thrust into the job while in her 20s following the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 and the early death of her father King George VI. She ascended to the throne in 1952 and since then presided as head of state, commander in chief of the UK military and head of the Church of England. For those Brits under the age of 70 she's the only monarch the country has ever known, making this the end of an era.
She was also a dab hand at machines, working during World War II on the home front servicing vehicles with the Auxiliary Territorial Service and continuing to do so with her beloved Land Rover, in which she onceSaudi King Abdullah by taking him out for a spin as a woman driver – and is the only person in England who never had to take a driving test. She also made her first broadcast via radio in 1940 offering comfort to children evacuated from London during the first Blitz of the war.
Despite receiving little in the way of formal education, the Queen took it upon herself to get educated and that included learning about technology. Britain was at the forefront of technological innovation in the early years of her reign and she had a keen interest in the way things were progressing, and in particular adored Concorde, even apparentlyOn March 26, 1976, the Queen became one of the first heads of state to use email.
Given the username HME2 by Kirstein, she logged in and sent an email with the signature Elizabeth R. Kirstein recalled that the text was prewritten and – given the topic – that's understandable, though it was a historic step. "This message to all ARPANET users announces the availability on ARPANET of the Coral 66 compiler provided by the GEC 4080 computer at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern, England,"
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