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World Insight & Royal Archives => Royal Archives => Archives: Residences & Architecture => Topic started by: cinrit on April 16, 2014, 11:32:22 AM
QuoteThe Queen's head adorns every stamp issued in the United Kingdom, and now you can see inside and outside her main home as well when you send a letter. The Royal Mail has release a 10-stamp set of images celebrating the palace, which has been the official London residence of British sovereigns since 1837.
The set includes six stamps featuring watercolours of the exterior of the building through the ages, commissioned by Royal Mail from artist Chris Draper.
There is also a miniature sheet of four stamps with photographs of four opulent locations inside the 775-room palace - the Throne Room, the Blue Drawing Room, the Grand Staircase and the Green Drawing Room.
More: Historic past of Buckingham Palace celebrated in set of first class stamps by Royal Mail | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2604853/Historic-past-Buckingham-Palace-celebrated-unique-set-class-stamps-Royal-Mail.html)
Cindy