Showing posts with label philatelic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philatelic. Show all posts

01 April 2012

More postage stamps of Queen Elizabeth II and her family

A set of  5 British stamps commemorating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. 



This picture of the Queen always reminds me of Princess Margaret.



A small assortment of some stamps I own of the Queen, and a Sarawak stamp featuring a pretty butterfly and her father, King George VI.

A young Princess Elizabeth (front row, far left) with her swim team.

Elizabeth and Philip on their wedding day.

A contemporary reissue of the Wilding definitive stamps that were the first stamps issued of the new Queen in 1952.

Commemorative seals celebrating the coronation of 1937 of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. I was always intrigued that they place the Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII) next to the Queen Mother, since she always hated the Duke and his wife, Wallis, blaming them ultimately for her husband's death from cancer.

Stamps commemorating the death of the Queen Mother. These are identical to stamps issued for something like her 80th birthday, except instead of the border being silver, it is black.

One of my favorite stamps, since Queen Mary is wearing a pretty spiky tiara and a large row of pearl chokers and necklaces.

A seal from the same sheet commemorating the 1937 coronation. She is wearing the Delhi Durbar tiara with the emeralds, and the uppermost emerald and diamond choker she is wearing was later gifted to Princess Diana by the present Queen.

An Australian stamp of the Queen Mother, which I love because she is wearing a lovely diamond spike tiara.

Prince William, Kate, and Charles and Camilla...

The first day cover for the wedding stamps of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.  
 British people still hate Camilla even though she is now "The Duchess of Cornwall" (Yeah, right, like she's not going to be queen when Charles takes the throne). Camilla only got welcomed into the British Royal family after the demise of the Queen Mother, who, I might add, was apparently a rather mean person, according to Princess Diana's personal butler, Paul Burrell.
The stamps commemorating the 21st birthday of Prince William of Wales.

The engagement portrait of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
 I purchased this postcard of William and Kate at the Palace of Holyroodhouse gift shop (I didn't want to pay the ridiculous fee to go inside). Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the Queen and her family in Edinburgh, Scotland. Nowhere else in Scotland could I find anything to do with the royal family, and I sort of realized that most Scots hate the English, and therefore also hate the Royals.
The souvenir sheet for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
 No, wait, you could find these stamps of the Royal wedding at any post office in Scotland, but then again, the Queen is sort of plastered in the corner of every single postage stamp in the United Kingdom...whether the Scots like it or not.
Sarah, the Duchess of York.
In recent years, the Duchess seems to be excluded more and more from functions hosted by the royal family, most notably the wedding of William and Kate. Her own brash actions seem to warrant this, and she causes a certain amount of embarrassment for her daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.

30 March 2012

Queen Elizabeth II and other British Royals

These are stamps and postcards from my own private collection of Royalty memorabilia.  
Queen Elizabeth II stamps from Antigua and Barbuda.


A Numismatic Philatelic cover commemorating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, featuring a set of stamps and a five pounds sterling coin.

A Canadian stamp with a young Princess Elizabeth.

A seal commemorating the 1937 coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. This seal pictures King George V.

The wedding stamp issue of Princess Anne and her then husband, Mark Philips. On the right, a Canadian stamp, picturing the queen in her diamond kokoshnik tiara.

The young Princess Elizabeth dressed a man and Princess Margaret Rose as a maiden in a theatre performance.

Queen Alexandra of Great Britain, daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark.

Queen Alexandra and two of her daughter, Princess Victoria and Queen Maud of Norway, in a horse drawn carriage. 

A young Queen Elizabeth in the George IV diadem, on her way to opening parliament.

A Canadian first day cover featuring a stamp and image of the Queen.

A set of 4 postcards, off of 4 stamp designs commemorating her Silver Jubilee.