Posted on 05/24/2019 6:45:01 AM PDT by C19fan
A new range of ten stamps which plots the life of Queen Victoria has been released to mark her and Prince Albert's bicentenaries.
Six of the stamps illustrate a timeline that starts in 1830 when the young royal was an 11-year-old princess and stretches to 1890 in the final years of her mammoth 63-year reign.
This collection also includes an image of Victoria's marriage to Albert and another of her holding an audience with prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
The remaining four stamps celebrate the legacy of Albert by featuring drawings of buildings linked to him such as Balmoral Castle and the Royal Albert Hall.
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When she passed away she was with her cousin the Crown Prince of Germany and reportedly died in his arms. During that period the music of both national anthems was to what we know as “God Save the King”.
She married her first cousin and had nine children...
Several of the stamps have imprinted “1st” instead of a sterling value. What does “1st” mean?
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