Queen Elizabeth cartoon

Wally Fawkes QE II by Trog 2002

Thanks to Gran8 for this swap, enjoy this funny cartoon of Queen Elizabeth 

working the taps :D

Received: 10 February 2015

Queen Elizabeth 80th birthday stamps

 Celebrating the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth

issued in 2006. 

Each of the eight pictures, drawn from archives of royal photographs over the decades, has been personally approved by the Queen and all but one of the informal portraits show her smiling warmly. The exception is a photograph from 1931, when she was five, in which she is gently resting her head, with her eyes closed, on the shoulder of her mother, then the Duchess of York and, later, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

The first stamp is a photograph of the Queen at a state banquet in Ottawa in 1951 when she was 25, while the second is a portrait of her in 1960, aged 34. 

The third is a side-on photograph of the Queen, wearing a hat, meeting dignitaries at Heathrow Airport in 2001, when she was 75.

The fifth shows her laughing and wearing sunglasses on board Britannia in 1972, aged 46, and the sixth shows her with a horse at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in 1985, when she was 59.

The seventh stamp in the 80th birthday series shows a portrait of her from 1940 when she was 14. 

The eight shows her with Prince Philip in 1950, when she was 24 and, three years after the couple married.

Thank you very much Agnes for this amazing card! (postcrossing.com)

Sent: 20 October 2014   Received: 7 November 2014   Travelled: 18 days

Buckingham Palace Commemorative Issue

 

Excerpt:

Ascended the throne on 6th February 1952

Coronation on 2nd June 1953 at Westminster Abbey

Jubilee reign attended by 12 Prime Ministers, 6 Archbishops of Canterbury

and over 30 Corgis.

Week 16: One postcard a week project

The stamps are the Buckingham Palace Commemorative set issued on 15 April 2014

The first showing Buckingham House - 1819 and the second Buckingham House c. 1700

Thank you Tom for this beautiful card of the Queen and the beautiful stamps!

Sent: 15 April 2014   Received: 25 April 2014 (British post is getting faster!!) Travelled: 10 days!

The State Opening of Parliament

 

HM Queen Elizabeth II, b. 21st Aril 1926, ascended the Throne

6th February 1952, Crowned 2nd June 1953. The State Opening of Parliament.

The Queen is wearing the Imperial State Crown and Robe of State.

I'm pretty much speechless after seeing this card with the beautiful stamps

of a young and old Queen Elizabeth side by side with the 1pence bust and

Queen Elizabeth in her Imperial Crown and Robe! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

thank you very much Richard!!

Sent: 4 April 2014   Received: 15 April 2014   Travelled: 11 days

Queen Elizabeth B&W

 Photo: Dorothy Wilding, 1952

Sent:11 February 2014,  Received: 20 February 2014, Travelled: 9 days

Rainbow Queen

 Thank you Ed for this hilarious Rainbow colours of the Queen's attire :D

 

Card is sent through Inked, a mobile phone app for sending postcards. It's my very first card of this nature which is great for that atypical image.

 Sent: March 2013

Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret

Photo: Cecil Beaaton (1904-80)

Buckingham Palace, March 1945

Thank you Wency for this beautiful card of the Princesses

Sent: 24 April 2013

Queen with an umbrella

Photo:Eve Arnold, 1968


 

A whimsical portrait of Queen Elizabeth, like all English people, she is proficient with an umbrella

 Thank you John May for this awesome card!

 

Sent: 4 April 2013

Received: 18 April 2013

Travelled: 14 days

Diamond Jubilee

 

HM Queen Elizabeth II Celebrates her "Diamond Jubilee"

2nd June 2012. Marking Her Majesty's 60th Anniversary of the accession to The Throne.

 

Thank you Penelope for this card ^.^

Queen Elizabeth's coronaton

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Queen by theGrace of God of the United Kingdom,

Canda, and Her Other Realms and Territories,

Queen head of the Commonwealth,

Defender of the Faith.

Thank you Irma for this most special card of the Queen at her coronation,

I'm getting goosebumps just looking at this and in awe!

Queen and corgi

The Queen with her corgi, Shadow

Thank you Shelley for this awesome card!

Carriage

Royal family drive to Queen Mother's Thanksgiving service.

Thank you Rachel for this great card!

Sent: 2 February 2013,   Received: 7 February 2013,   Travelled: 5 days