King Charles unadorned new stamp design revealed

The representation of King Charles III that is to look connected caller stamps from 4 April has been revealed by the Royal Mail.

The minimalist, unadorned picture, with nary crown connected the stamp oregon immoderate different decoration, was approved personally by the King.

"The feedback we got backmost was that helium wanted it to beryllium simple," said Royal Mail manager of outer affairs, David Gold.

"It's a precise quality image, with nary embellishment," helium said.

The plan was besides intended to supply continuity, influenced by the classical illustration of Queen Elizabeth II created by the creator Arnold Machin successful 1967.

The caller stamp is adjacent much pared backmost and stark. It does not person immoderate crown oregon royal symbols - dissimilar galore of the predecessors, wherever kings' stamps often see an representation of a crown and queens are depicted wearing a crown oregon diadem.

"It was 70 years that we had the aforesaid monarch and since 1967 we've had beauteous overmuch the aforesaid stamps," said Mr Gold.

He said radical would present person to get accustomed to seeing the caller representation connected mundane first- and second-class stamps.

Britain's postage stamps are unsocial successful not showing the sanction of the country, and the caller stamps person thing but the King's head, the terms and also, now, an attached barcode.

The plan is based connected a sculpture made by creator Martin Jennings for the caller King Charles coins - with the representation past digitally adapted for stamps.

Millions of caller stamps are being printed, which volition beryllium utilized concurrently with those of Queen Elizabeth II, which volition beryllium sold until the aged stocks tally out.

The representation released by the Royal Mail is for alleged "definitive" stamps, which are the regular, plain, non-commemorative postage stamps. Some of the archetypal sheets were unveiled astatine the Postal Museum successful London, which is showing an accumulation called the King's Stamp.

King Charles becomes the seventh monarch to look connected stamps - Queen Victoria was the first, successful 1840, erstwhile her illustration was shown connected a "Penny Black".

The representation of Queen Victoria utilized connected the archetypal stamps originated from an earlier sketch drawn erstwhile she was 15 years old, and that continued arsenic the representation utilized until her decease astatine the property of 81.

King Charles has been an inveterate missive writer - figures from the Duchy of Cornwall suggest helium personally wrote 1,830 letters successful his last twelvemonth arsenic Prince of Wales, successful effect to much than 50,000 sent to him by the public.

His missive penning erstwhile Prince of Wales besides drew him into accusations of meddling successful politics.

During the Covid pandemic helium wrote a idiosyncratic missive praising the value of postal workers arsenic a "point of regular quality contact, a friendly, acquainted face", addressing his envelope to "Everyone astatine Royal Mail".