Launch of Royal “YouTube” Channel

The Royal Household has launched a Royal Channel on the popular video sharing website “YouTube” (www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel).

The channel which is now live will showcase both archive and modern video of The Queen and other Members of the Royal Family and Royal events. New footage will be regularly added.

At launch, the channel started displaying the first televised Christmas Broadcast of 1957 as its main video. The access to this restricted footage has been granted to mark the 50th anniversary this year of the first televised Christmas Broadcast.

The Royal Channel on YouTube will also show The Queen’s 2007 Christmas Broadcast for the first time from approximately 3pm GMT on the 25th December - Christmas Day; the same time as the traditional broadcast on television.

Additional footage on the channel includes rarely seen films from the British Film Institute (BFI), which are detailed below.

The first televised Christmas Broadcast, Sandringham House, 1957
This footage is particularly relevant given the fact that it is the 50th anniversary of the Christmas Broadcast. It also makes reference to technological advances: “I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct. That it is possible for some of you to see me today is just another example of the speed at which things are changing all around us.”

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