Ray Van Eng (03/27/97) .
Though the official royal web site at www.royal.gov.uk gives answers to questions like is the Queen the richest woman in the world (she said no, because much of her 'wealth' are crown jewelers, private estates etc. which she has to pass onto her successor), it left out many juicy details that have made royal watching so fascinating. Don't despair, from the country that gave us Benny Hill, there are other unofficial royal web sites that can satisfy you little wicked ones out there, read on... All in all, the royal cyber site is a big improvement over the previous homey page on Prince Charles put up by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at www.fco.gov.uk and the government press release web site for the royal family at www.coi.gov.uk/coi/. By the way the Central Office of Information (COI) is the webmaster for the new royal web site. While the Queen launched the site from the Kingsbury High School in North London, her first e-mail was addressed to a group of children in Nakina, a tiny Canadian community (pop. 500) northeast of Thunder Bay, ON. A CU-SeeMe (see you, see me, get it?) audio and video link was hooked up to provide real-time face-to-face interaction. Unfortunately, only the 'see you' part worked. The Queen could watch the students on her computer screen but not the other way around. Regardless, the Queen thinks cyberspace is cool. She said, "I am sure that some of you have parents and grandparents at home who have found the Internet and the World Wide Web to be a bit of a mystery. But the Internet is rapidly becoming a part of everyday life, and used properly, it opens the door to a huge range of knowledge which has no national boundaries. It is important that we all learn about the Internet, and get the most benefit from it." Of the 150 pages at the site, there are references to Princess Diana, but the Queen's second son, Prince Andrew's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson was left off the official royal home page altogether. Fergie fans need not to worry though, she gets the royal treatment on the Royal Network site - www.royalnetwork.com which featured the "Fergie Foundation where she will never go hungry again." And for most of us, the official Royal site is not nearly as much fun as a number of other tabloid sites such as the RoyaltyUK subscriber site from the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail with daily gossips on the royals) or the royalnetwork we just described which not only featured the Duchess of Pork, sorry 'York', one will also find a 'beheaded' Camilla Parker Bowles implanted in a young woman's body in a bikini swimsuit. Would Prince Charles be amused, you think? |
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