Queen's Platinum Jubilee: Eight new stamps celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
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The new stamp set includes photographs from 1957 to 2020, with this earliest picture, taken in 1957, in black and white. It shows the young Queen alongside the Duke of Edinburgh during a tour to Washington DC in the US.
The Queen's Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees were also celebrated with special stamps. Here you can see Queen Elizabeth II after a tour of the Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in May 2005.
The stamps will feature the monarch throughout her reign, showing the various official duties the Queen has undertaken. In 1966 the Queen travelled to the West Indies in St Vincent for a tour.
The Queen will have reigned for 70 years on 6 February but national celebrations are being held over a special four-day bank holiday weekend in June. Buckingham Palace revealed a full-line up of events including a competition to create a royal pudding and street parades.
The stamps will be available from Friday. Simon Thompson, chief executive of Royal Mail said: "We are honoured to be releasing them to mark the occasion of the first Platinum Jubilee in the UK's history, a momentous occasion." In this photo the Queen was on a visit of MI5 headquarters in February 2020.
The Queen will be staying at Sandringham estate, where she will be for the anniversary and mark the moment she became Queen in 1952. The photograph shows the Queen saluting in uniform and on horseback during the 1978 Trooping the Colour.
This Jubilee will be the first that the Queen has celebrated without Prince Philip who died in April 2021.
Here the Queen is in her Order of the Garter robes in 1999.