2597.🇬🇬 🇫🇰 Royal Visit To Guernsey; Seeing The Sights Of Stanley.

 

New issues -

🇫🇰 Falkland Islands postal service -

5 December 2024 - Sights of Port Stanley - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Bee Design from photographs taken by Simon Verrechia, June Yobhel Pantaleon, Luz Irene Andrino and Tim Underwood and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Production coordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Isle of Man Stamps for information about this issue. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

23 October 2024 - Bicentenary of Kittur Vijayotsava, Indian resistance to the British East India Company - 1 stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

14 November 2024 - Commemoration of the Royal Visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla to Guernsey on 16 July 2024 (the date of issue is also the date of the King’s 75th birthday) - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Designed by Bridget Yabsley and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13 x 13.5. Rating:- *****.

  The King and Queen are presently visiting Samoa to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting as mentioned in Blog 5595 and this occasion has resulted in some excellent photographs of the King which would make excellent illustrations for future stamp issues. Here are some of my favourites:-

and at the opening of the Commonwealth Conference - 

The Conference was also attended by King Mswati III of eSwatini -

  Finally, a photograph captured the unhappy face of the recently elected prime minister of the United Kingdom who after just three months in the role is enormously unpopular and here at the Commonwealth Meeting looked isolated, ignored, unloved, uncomfortable, out of place and terribly pale. A fish out of water. It seems unlikely that he will be around long enough to attend the next CHOGM to be held in two years time in Antigua And Barbuda. Although that may be true of many of the politicians who attend these conferences - here today, gone tomorrow. Still, at least he’s got a mention here.