Royal Mail will issue a miniature sheet of four stamps in two designs to commemorate the wedding of HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles.
Update 5 April: Following the decision that HRH the Prince of
Wales would represent the Queen at the Friday funeral of Pope John Paul II
in Rome, Royal Mail announced it would postpone the issue of its Royal
Wedding stamps for 24 hours until Saturday 9 April.
The miniature sheet was not reprinted, but the stamps were not available
to buy until Saturday, the postponed wedding day of The Prince of Wales
and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles.
The official issue date remained as 8 April and special handstamps shown below were used, although Royal Mail also produced "The Windsor souvenir postmark" for the day of the wedding for use on souvenir covers - L9544 below. There are also other postmarks for the Wedding Day as shown.
The Stamps
The sheet contains two copies of each stamp in a silver background with
white lettering. The 30p, by Christopher Furlong, shows the couple
at the Mey Games in Scotland in August 2004; the picture on the 68p
stamp was taken at Birkhall, the Prince's Scottish residence in January
2005 by Carolyn Robb. The caption on the sheet is in English and Welsh.
Technical details:
The stamps are printed in litho by Enschede of Holland, with all over
phosphor. The stamps are 30x40mm, and the sheet 85x115mm, which is rather
large to fit on a 125mm cover!
The postmark images are from Royal Mail's Postmark Bulletin, and
all images are Copyright 2005 by Royal Mail.
We have produced covers for this sheet in a limited edition price
£6.50.
For 8 April we used postmarks L9512 & L9513. For 9 April
we used postmark L9549 at the same price.
We also have some double-dated covers at £7.00 each. Royal Mail rules did not allow cancels with the two different dates on the whole miniature sheet so the sheets on these covers have been neatly split horizontally, with the upper half postmarked 8 April and the lower half 9 April.
Also available:
Miniature sheet mint - £2.95
Sheet on PO FDC - £4.00
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Ref FD534 Official Philatelic Bureau postmark |
Ref FD535 Official Windsor FDI postmark |
Windsor Guildhall 9 April |
Ref L9510 Royal Wedding, Windsor |
Ref L9563 Royal Wedding, Windsor 9 April |
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Ref L9508 Charles & Camilla - Majesty Magazine - Windsor |
Charles & Camilla - Majesty Magazine - Windsor 9 April |
Ref L9512 Royal Wedding, Windsor |
Royal Wedding, Windsor 9 April |
Ref L9547 The Wedding of HRH Prince Charles & Camilla Parker Bowles |
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Ref L9513 Royal Wedding Celebrations, Windsor |
Royal Wedding Celebrations, Windsor 9 April |
Ref M9531 Prince of Wales, Birmingham |
Ref L9511 Charles & Camilla, Windsor |
Charles & Camilla, Windsor 9 April |
Ref L9509 Royal Wedding, Windsor Phil Stamp Collection |
Ref F9541 10th ann. of No 32 (The Royal) Squadron. |
Ref E4680 Windsor Castle Permanent Postmark |
This page updated 3 May 2005
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