Following Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II’s death on 8 September 2022, millions of people throughout Britain, the Commonwealth and wider world mourned the loss. In these modern times, many of us turned to the television to keep updated, and a popular portrait of the Queen was adopted by a number of major media outlets, such as Sky News. This portrait has a fascinating philatelic background. Using material from the Crown Agents Philatelic and Security Printing Archive in the British Library’s Philatelic Collections, this article will recount that narrative in remembrance of our beloved late sovereign.
During Elizabeth II’s
