英王室緊跟潮流 圖片網上秀照片
Buckingham Palace said on Sunday it has 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.
Flickr is the latest in a line of social media to be harnessed by Buckingham Palace. In 2007 a Royal YouTube channel was launched, along with a new royal website. A British monarchy Twitter account followed in 2009.
英國白金漢宮於上週日宣佈，英國王室日前在圖片共享網站Flickr開設了帳戶。
英國王室的Flickr帳戶中上傳了最新的王室婚禮照片和王室珍藏的一些老照片。
王室Flickr帳戶的開通正逢白金漢宮今年的夏季開放時間，王室在Flickr上發佈了將於本月27日在白金漢宮舉行的“女王之年”展覽上展出的照片。
在王室的Flickr帳戶中，網友們還可以看到女王美術館、白金漢宮和溫莎城堡所收藏的“皇家藏品”中的歷史照片，以及借給英國各地的博物館和美術館的照片。
其中還包括維多利亞女王和阿爾伯特王子所收藏的拍攝於很久以前的經典照片。
在Flickr上開帳戶是英國王室利用社交媒介的又一新嘗試。2007年，Youtube視頻分享網站上開通了“英國王室頻道”，並有一個專門的“皇家主頁”。2009年，英國王室又開設了“推特”帳戶。
Vocabulary:
up-to-the-minute:最新的
on loan to: 暫借給……
