2893. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Commemorates Birth Centenary of Queen Elizabeth II.

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

21 April 2026 - Birth centenary of Queen Elizabeth II - 8 stamps (4  vertically se-tenant pairs) and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 more different stamps. Presumably there will be other items. Further details awaited. Rating:- *****.

This issue was shown prematurely on the Royal Mail and Collectables E Bay page and reported by Fairy Foot on Stamp boards. The miniature sheet is charming depicting as it does, portraits of the Queen with her beloved pet corgis and horses. Better quality illustrations will be shown here when available.

2767. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 King Charles Makes His First Appearance On Scottish Definitives.

 

New Issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail  

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Issues for Scotland -

14 August 2025 - Definitive stamps with the cameo head of  King Charles III included in the design - 2 stamps with barcodes. Self-adhesive. Designed by Tayburn from art by Anton Morris and Frank Pottinger. Lithographed by Cartor and perforated 15 x 14.5. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

7 August 2025 - Birth centenary of MS Swaminathan, geneticist - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

5 March 2025 - Commemoration of the July Mass Uprising - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

🇨🇶 Products inscribed ‘Sark’ - 

27 August - 80th anniversary of the liberation from occupation by Nazi German forces - 1 sheetlet containing all 8 stamps included in the basic set plus labels. See Blog 2764. Designed by Sue Daly and lithographed by Brebner Print. Sold in a pack for £17.50. Rating:- ***.

2764. 🇸🇭 New Issues From Tristan Da Cunha And Sark.

 

🇸🇭 Postal service of Tristan Da Cunha -

29 August 2025 - Communications in Tristan Da Cunha - 4 stamps. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- ****.

15 September 2025 - The paintings of Jimmy Rogers - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5 x 13. Rating:- *****. . 

  Thanks to Isle Of Man Stamps and Coins for information about the above issues. Creative Direction was responsible for the coordination of the production of the 2 sets.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

🇨🇶 Products inscribed Sark -

27 August 2025 - 80th anniversary of the liberation of Sark from Nazi German occupation at the end of the Second World War and the Royal visit to Sark by The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

Thanks to Stewie 1980 for the information that illustrations of the issue are available to view

2749. 🇯🇪 Jersey Recalls 2024 Royal Visit.

 

New issues -

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

15 July 2025 - 1st anniversary of the visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla to Jersey - 6 stamps. Designed from photographs by Max Burnett and Andy Le Gresney and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- ****.

🇸🇩 Postal service of Sudan -

July 2025 - 80th anniversary of the League of Arab States - 3 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

9 July 2025 - EUROMED, Mediterranean resources - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

2729. 🇸🇬🇬🇬 Singapore New Issue Features Endangered Flora; Guernsey’s Royal Visit.

 

New Issues -

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

30 May 2025 - Critically endangered flora of Singapore - flora of coastal forests - 4 perforated stamps and 1 ‘mini-pane’ containing 4 imperforate stamps. Designed by Teo Nam Siang and lithographed by Secura and perforated 13. Rating:- ****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

14 June 2025 - First anniversary of the Royal Visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Designed by Bridget Yabsley from photographs taken by Chris George and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- *****.

2724. 🇲🇾 🇱🇰 Malaysia Commemorates160th Anniversary Of ITU; Sri Lanka Vesak Festival.

 

New Issues -

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

17 May 2025 - 160th anniversary of the International Telecommunications Union - 2 stamps issued asa se-tenant pair and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different circular stamps Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

 10 May 2025 - Vesak 2569 (religious festival),Pothgul Raja Maha Vijaraya paintings. 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

10 May 2025 - State Vesak Festival - 1 stamps issued. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

14 June 2025 - 1st anniversary of the Royal visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla to Guernsey - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Further details awaited.

16 July 2025 - 1st anniversary of royal patronage of the Guernsey golden goat, described as “a special definitive issue” - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different £5 stamps. Further details awaited. Rating:- *.

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.