Her Majesty Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom has bought a silverish pocket-seized digital music player for only 169 pounds from the Regent Street Apple Store.

The Queen, 79, has proved to be an iPod fan as she is said to have bought a 6GB silver model for 169 notes and coins with her own picture on them, according to Currnet Bun, quoted by the Inquirer magazine.

Apparently, after US President George Bush has joined the iPod-toting classes, it was Her Majesty's turn to join the iPod crowd.

The idea came from her son, Prince Andrew, the fourth in line to the throne behind prince Charles, who had also given his royal mother a mobile phone she has been using for four years.




According to The Sun, Queen Elizabeth II, a music lover, is impressed with her new small and handy iPod which can hold up to 10,000 downloaded songs.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth could learn to use the new music device before attending the graduation ceremony of her grandson Prince William at Saint Andrews next week as the 23- year-old royalty is about to receive an MA scroll after his 2:1 in geography.

That could also be the first official occasion for the Queen to meet the family of Prince William's girlfriend Kate Midleton.