Queen silhouette on Christmas stamps for last time

A Christmas stamp postulation featuring the Queen's silhouette has been released by Royal Mail.

It volition beryllium the past clip her precocious Majesty's silhouette volition diagnostic connected a festive stamp.

The acceptable of six Art Deco-style stamps picture moments from the Nativity including the travel to Bethlehem.

Each stamp successful the Christmas 2022 postulation bears a barcode which customers tin scan to ticker a festive video of Shaun the Sheep.

Royal Mail worked with Kent-based creator Katie Ponder to make the collection.

David Gold, Royal Mail's argumentation director, said the "charming style" of this year's Christmas stamps would acceptable "the cleanable code for the festive season".

The Queen took a keen involvement successful stamps passim her life. She was patron of the Royal Philatelic Society London - the world's oldest stamp nine - from1952, keeping up a contented successful the Royal family.

George V, the Queen's grandfather, became the society's patron successful 1910.

The Queen past visited the nine to unfastened a caller gathering successful November 2019, conscionable earlier the pandemic began.

"She was wonderful," said Peter Cockburn, the society's president, erstwhile asked astir the Queen's past visit.

People person been urged to nonstop their Christmas station aboriginal this twelvemonth to marque definite it gets delivered connected time.

Post with second-class stamps indispensable beryllium sent by 19 December to beryllium delivered successful clip for Christmas. First-class parcels volition beryllium delivered connected clip if they are posted by 21 December.