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Please make sure you are aware that children may put craft items into their mouths, and that they should wash their hands afterwards. It is commonplace, when a new monarch ascends the throne, for money to co-circulate, as replacing it takes time. I think there’s an acknowledgement that, for 70 years, people have been so used to seeing the image of Her Majesty – even through the current image only started in 1967 – they didn’t want anything too different.
King Charles go on sale | Evening Standard Stamps featuring King Charles go on sale | Evening Standard
With stamps bearing the image of HM Queen Elizabeth II remaining valid for use, the next few years may see two monarchs on our post, with both QEII and KCIII stamps in use, something which has not been seen for many years.
Unlike Queen Elizabeth II’s famous silhouette, the King is not depicted wearing a laurel wreath, the late Queen’s silhouette has been featured on special stamps since 1966. The curious coronet was the centrepiece of an elaborate ceremony concocted for the TV age by Charles’s media-savvy uncle, the photographer Lord Snowdon. When Charles was crowned Prince of Wales, he didn’t know he was wearing a table tennis ball on his head. Previous consorts have always had a new crown commissioned, but Buckingham Palace is keen to emphasise the decision to recycle one from the family’s sprawling collection “in the interests of sustainability and efficiency”.
King Charles III silhouette Royal Mail to sell first stamps with King Charles III silhouette
Following the Queen's death we have seen an 'In Memorium'set honouring Her Late Majesty, and a set honouring the Royal Marines. When the King’s standard stamps enter circulation they are set to be used in conjunction with the Queen’s stamps, which will slowly be phased out. Today we are unveiling these stamps, the first to be approved by His Majesty the King, in tribute to a woman whose commitment to public service and duty was unparalleled in the history of this country. On 8 February Royal Mail revealed the new definitive stamps design, using a portrait that is also being used for the UK's new coins.A Royal Mail spokesperson said: "Flowers mark our celebrations, our joys and our sorrows and, above all, they unify us through a pleasure that we can all understand. The 20-year-old prince was crowned against the dramatic medieval backdrop of Caernarfon Castle, beneath a swooping perspex canopy, designed so cameras could get a good view of the action, while guests sat on modern red-stained bentwood chairs, adding a bit of Technicolor pop to the scene. With just that scant record to go on, the 17th-century crown that will be used this weekend is a florid fantasy of what that melted crown might have been, conjured by royal jeweller Robert Vyner with a liberal dollop of artistic licence. Not that the king seems particularly fond of his mother’s headpiece: he has already removed it from the royal cypher, going back to the Tudor crown instead. Two kilos of glitz’ … the 400-year-old St Edward’s crown, which the king will wear at his coronation.
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