New stamps to celebrate The Queen's 90th

Sunday 24 April 2016

Each decade of the Queen's life has been captured on a new set of stamps to celebrate her 90th birthday.

Jersey Post's set of ten stamps feature Her Majesty from the age of two right through to the present day.

Jersey Post’s Head of Philatelic Melanie Gouzinis said: “Ever since she was born in 1926, The Queen’s family has formed a strong support network for her and to this day, family life remains very important to Her Majesty.

“Birthdays are often about the coming together of families at a time of celebration and we wanted to convey this idea through the images we used on the stamps.

“The photographs which feature were carefully selected to span each decade of Her Majesty’s life, from the 1920s right through to the 2010s, beginning with a wonderfully nostalgic black and white image of Queen Elizabeth II, then Princess Elizabeth, aged just two years old.” 

The Queen celebrates two birthdays each year - her actual birthday on 21 April and her official birthday on a Saturday in June, known as Trooping the Colour.

The Queen spends her official birthday watching the parade which moves between Buckingham Palace, The Mall and Horse Guards Parade in central London. She spends her actual birthday privately, usually at Windsor Castle. 

The stamps are now on sale from all branches of Jersey Post.