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Queen Elizabeth: Royal Mail issues special stamps in memory of monarch.

Queen Elizabeth’s image will be featured on four new stamps to be released in her memory.

The four stamps are grayscale photos of the Queen taken at different points in her life and were first sold as a suite for her Golden Jubilee in 2002. To update the set as a memorial collection, the year of her birth and death were added in the upper corner.

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Queen Elizabeth: Royal Mail issues special stamps in memory of monarch.

TheQueen Elizabethmemorial stamps will be sold both individually and as a pack, retailing for $7.43 and on sale Nov. 10.

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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (L) and Britain’s Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh pass a giant photograph taken to be used as part of a series of 10 Royal Mail postage stamps, to mark the monarch’s 90th birthday, during her tour of the Royal Mail Windsor postal delivery office in Windsor, west of London, on April 20, 2016, to mark the 500th anniversary of the Postal Service. Queen Elizabeth II is set to celebrate her 90th birthday on April 21, with a family gathering and a cake baked by a reality television star, as a new poll finds Britain’s longest serving monarch is as popular as ever. The queen has reigned for more than 63 years and shows no sign of retiring, even if she has in recent years passed on some of her duties to the younger royals.

The commemorative gesture follows the national tradition most recently seen forPrince Philip. Weeks after the Duke of Edinburgh died at age 99 in April 2021, the Royal Mail honored the late royal with asimilar, special stamp set.

The British mail service also announced Tuesday that it will move from using an image ofQueen Elizabethon its Machin Definitive “everyday” stamp to instead feature a shot of King Charles, 73. A silhouette of the King will similarly replace that of the late Queen on Special Stamps, as well.

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The Royal Mail said in astatementthat more details will be released in “due course” and that the new Charles stamps “will enter circulation once current stocks of stamps are exhausted” to heed practicalities.

Amid the change, one thing is expected to stay the same. The roughly 100,000 Royal Mail post boxes around Britain bearingQueen Elizabeth’s Royal Cypher ERII are likely to remain in place, as the mailboxes are only updated when new ones are added,Sky Newsreported.

source: people.com