Queen Elizabeth II visited Google's British headquarters on Thursday.

Who would have guessed? The Queen of Great Britain is a cutting-edge silver surfer. Her Highness sent her first e-mail in 1976, already has her own Web site, she is listening to the Last Night of the Proms on her iPod, she’s using her Blackberry to text message her grandchildren and check the racing results. What a cool Queen…

On Thursday, the Queen uploaded her first video clip to YouTube as she and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, visited Google's London HQ located not far from the Buckingham Palace.

Queen Elizabeth II posted a clip of a 1968 reception for British Olympians to the video-sharing site's Royal Channel which launched in December 2007 and was a huge success with over 1 million channel views in its first week.

Such a trendy image of a monarch is a great thing for the Buckingham Palace as the United Kingdom residents are the people who spend more time online than those of any other European country. In 1976, the Queen became the first monarch to send an e-mail. She did it while on a visit to an army base.

Her Highness was greeted by a group of about 150 Google staff led by Google European President Nikesh Arora. Then the tour began and the monarchs were shown around the headquarters of probably the coolest corporation of this decade.

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh didn’t leave the Google headquarters empty-handed. They received a gift of Google code printed on aluminum.