Queen Plays Royal Wii

Lesley Shields - Scottish Daily Record

Queen Plays Royal Wii ; Monarch Hijacks Wills's Console

THE QUEEN has got a Wii secret - she's a dab hand at playing games on the computer console.

She moved in on Prince William's Christmas gift from girlfriend Kate Middleton - and had the Royal Family in stitches as she took control of a handset.

The fun started on Christmas Day when the Queen saw William playing a game on the pounds 200 Nintendo machine after lunch and asked to join in.

A Palace source said: "It was hilarious. William was in fits of laughter.

"She played a simple 10-pin bowling game and, by all accounts, was a natural. His only difficulty now is prising it away from the Queen's clutches."

The source added: "Although she is 81, the Queen's hand-eye co- ordination was as good as somebody half her age.

"William loves his gadgets and boys' toys so it was the perfect present for him.

"And he is enormously impressed that he has such a cool grandmother."

The Queen already has a BlackBerry and an iPod and regularly upgrades her mobile phone to one with all the latest features. She also regularly uses her own computer and has an email address.

The Palace source said: "They are pretty much the rarest phone numbers and email addresses in the world.

"Anybody who has those in their contacts list is very lucky."

Last month, the Queen used video website YouTube to show her Christmas message for the first time.

In the video, the monarch was seen watching black-and-white footage of herself delivering her festive speech from 1957.

Since then, the Royal Channel has featured 19 videos including rarely seen 1923 footage of the Queen Mother's wedding and footage from a 1917 newsreel titled "Roses for the Rose Queen", featuring Queen Alexandra's West End tour.

More than 800,000 people have watched the videos already.

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