And again about postage stamps... Who would have thought that this year the last postage stamps with the profile of Queen Elizabeth II would be issued. Especially around Christmas.
The new set of Royal Mail postage stamps is both festive and mournful. It evokes mixed feelings. A sheet with six stamps is decorated with gospel Nativity scenes, which are made in the Art Deco style.
Each stamp has a cuar code that will allow you to watch a holiday cartoon about Shaun the Sheep. The kids will surely enjoy this.
Each stamp features a white silhouette profile of the former Queen of Great Britain. By the way, the royal profile is a distinctive sign that was present on all stamps of the Royal Mail.
It seems that the silhouette of Elizabeth II was placed on Christmas stamps for a reason. Surely, representatives of the Royal Mail wanted to emphasize for the last time the loftiness of the image of the monarch, who has been in power for 70 years. At the end of September, they officially announced that in the future the profile of the late Elizabeth II on stamps would be replaced by the profile of her son, King Charles III. But when exactly the stamps with the new ruler will appear, the mail has not yet been specified.
I want to note that Elizabeth II had a special attitude to philately. She was the patron of the Royal Philatelic Society of London, which was considered the oldest in the world. The former queen took this position when she ascended the throne. Patron of the Royal Society of London Philatelists – a traditional position for the royal family. For example, George V, grandfather of Elizabeth II, has been the society's patron since 1910.
Studying stamps with the profile of the former Queen of Great Britain, you involuntarily begin to get involved in philately. Postage stamps help to study history, sometimes even build a chronology of events. Surely, this is often done by users of the "Philately. Postage and non-postage stamps".
