Royal Mail Releases Queen Elizabeth’s Memorial Stamps — See the Photos Approved by King Charles

Sovereign Elizabeth’s picture will be highlighted on four new stamps to be delivered in her memory.

On Tuesday, that very day that regal grieving formally lifted, the Illustrious Mail uncovered the dedicatory stamp assortment that will be given in the late ruler’s honor later this fall.

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The postage set was the first supported by Ruler Charles III since he became sovereign, a progress taking effect right now after his mom’s passing at age 96 on Sept. 8.

“For the beyond seventy years each English stamp has been by and by endorsed by Her Late Grandness, Sovereign Elizabeth.

Today we are revealing these stamps, the first to be supported by His Highness The Ruler, in recognition for a lady whose obligation to public help and obligation was unrivaled throughout the entire existence of this country,” Simon Thompson, President of the Imperial Mail, said in an explanation.

The four stamps are grayscale photographs of the Sovereign taken at various places in her day to day existence and were first sold as a suite for her Brilliant Celebration in 2002.

To refresh the set as a remembrance assortment, the extended time of her introduction to the world and passing were included the upper corner.

The below average stamp includes an exquisite headshot of a youthful Sovereign Elizabeth, taken by Dorothy Wilding in 1952 — the year she consented the high position.

The top notch stamp is a photograph from the acclaimed English photographic artist Cecil Beaton, showing a more developed Sovereign ahead searching in 1968.

The third stamp is a shot taken by Yousuf Karsh in 1984, with the Sovereign giving a delicate grin and certain investigate the camera.

The fourth and last stamp includes a grinning Sovereign in 1996, caught by long-lasting imperial picture taker Tim Graham.

The Sovereign Elizabeth commemoration stamps will be sold both exclusively and as a pack, retailing for $7.43 and on special Nov. 10.

The dedicatory signal follows the public custom generally as of late seen for Sovereign Philip.

Weeks after the Duke of Edinburgh died at age 99 in April 2021, the Illustrious Mail regarded the late imperial with a comparative, extraordinary stamp set.

The English mail administration likewise reported Tuesday that it will move from utilizing a picture of Sovereign Elizabeth on its Machin Conclusive “ordinary” stamp to rather include a dose of Lord Charles, 73. An outline of the Lord will likewise supplant that of the late Sovereign on Extraordinary Stamps, too.

The Illustrious Mail said in a proclamation that more subtleties will be delivered “at the appropriate time” and that the new Charles stamps “will enter dissemination once current loads of stamps are depleted” to notice items of common sense.


In the midst of the change, one thing is supposed to remain something very similar. The approximately 100,000 Illustrious Mail post boxes around England bearing Sovereign Elizabeth’s Imperial Code ERII are probably going to stay set up, as the letter drops are possibly refreshed when new ones are added, Sky News detailed.

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