26 July 2010 / REUTERS, LONDON
Buckingham Palace said on Sunday it had launched an account with online photo management site Flickr.
The British Monarchy Website Flickr account streams both up-to-the-minute images of royal engagements and archive photographs from the royal collection. The launch is timed to coincide with the summer opening of Buckingham Palace, as the site highlights photographs specially commissioned for the palace's exhibition "The Queen's Year," which opens on July 27. The Flickr account also features historic photographs from current Royal Collection exhibitions at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle and on loan to museums and galleries around the UK. They include masterpieces of early British photography collected by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.