Pictures of royal family on Flickr

London: She has famously given YouTube and Twitter the royal seal of approval. Now the Queen is to establish a presence on Flickr, the picture-sharing website.

Up-to-the-minute images of the Queen and other members of the royal family will be streamed on to the new Buckingham Palace Flickr page which goes live today.

The site will initially store 600 images of the Royals and will have 28 sections covering senior members of the royal family including the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and Princes William and Harry.

The online photograph album will provide a unique glimpse into the life and work of the modern monarchy and will allow Flickr users to use the photographs in blogs and other social media.

As well as recent photographs of the royal family at work and play, the site will include more historical material drawn from the royal collections.

There are several intimate family photos depicting both the Queen and Prince Charles as babies and children.

Highlights include a picture of the Queen when she was just two years old, and a family portrait which shows the three-year-old Princess Elizabeth enjoying tea with her parents, the future George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

The site also includes a letter sent to the future Queen Mother by nurse Clara Knight, who looked after the young Princess Elizabeth. The letter, which was sent to accompany a photograph and which is dated March 8, 1927, reads: "If mummy looks into my wide open mouth with a little magnifying glass she will see my teeth. Elizabeth quite well and happy!"

The site also features a family snap of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh with a young Princess Anne and Prince Charles, taken in the grounds of Clarence House in August 1951.

The section dedicated to Charles has a picture of the heir to the throne on his first day at Hill House school.

The British Monarchy website Flickr account can be accessed via www.flickr.com/britishmonarchy and photostream www.flickr.com/photos/britishmonarchy.