She was the first person in the UK to make a long-distance phone call without an operator, the first monarch in the world to send an email, and one of the first to tweet.
So what you and I are about to do is practise speaking on the phone with a medical receptionist to reschedule a doctor's appointment that we made and this is how it's gonna work.
Mr. Little went to the telephone and called up the Bureau of Missing Persons, but when the man asked for a description of Stuart and was told that he was only two inches high, he hung up in disgust.
The last time a British monarch died, 65 years ago, the demise of George VI was conveyed in a code word, " Hyde Park Corner" , to Buckingham Palace, to prevent switchboard operators from finding out.