Royal Mail makes its mark with jubilee stamps

THE Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are to be celebrated with the issue of some very special stamps throughout 2012.

Royal Mail’s celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee starts with the House of Windsor stamps issued on February 2. The stamps feature the five monarchs from the start of the 20th century with the Queen taking pride of place on the final stamp marking the 60th year of her reign, the second longest for a British monarch after Queen Victoria. Other stamps to celebrate the occasion will be issued.

Stamps celebrating the contribution of writers Roald Dahl and Charles Dickens will also be available, as will, on February 23, Britons of Distinction stamps to commemorate prominent Britons, including mathematician and Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing, Special Operations Executive heroine Odette Hallowes and composer Frederick Delius, while the Golden Jubilee of Coventry Cathedral is marked by honouring its architect, Sir Basil Spence.

In what is set to be a blockbuster year, other stamp issues include classic locomotives, comics and British fashion designers.

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