90th Birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth II — United Kingdom - Prince William — Malaysia Stamp & Philately Reference Guide

EXONUMI STATIC :

50.1671.8457

EXONUMI # :

UKPW.MS3

Group Name :

90th Birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth II

Item Name :

Miniature Sheet

Item Type :

Miniature Sheet/Stamp

Issue Date :

21/04/2016

Printer :

International Security Printers

Printing :

Lithography

Separation Type :

Normal Perforations

Gum Type :

Gum

Issued Price :

£ 2.56

Shape :

Rectangular

Description :

The miniature sheet is based on specially commissioned family portrait photographed for Royal Mail by Ranald Mackechnie. Taken in the summer of 2015 in the White Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace, it features the Queen with her three immediate heirs, thereby encompassing four generations of the House of Windsor.

Besides echoing the miniature sheet issued to mark the 100th Birthday of the Queen Mother in 2000, it is the first appearance of Prince George of Cambridge on a Royal Mail stamp.

The miniature sheet is again a massive 179 x 74 mm, almost impossible to use even on a c5 envelope. The stamps are 27 x 37 mm, and the sheet is printed in litho by International Security Printers.

MINIATURE SHEET

1st class THE PRINCE OF WALES

Prince Charles, the Queen’s eldest child and heir to the throne

1st class THE QUEEN

Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, having acceded to the throne in 1952

1st class PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE

Prince George, Prince William’s eldest child and third in line to the throne

1st class THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE

Prince William, Prince Charles’ eldest child and second in line to the throne