Last UK Stamp With The Queen

The Flying Scotsman stamp issue will be the last depicting the late Queen, whose silhouette has been featured on special stamps since 1966. Stamp illustrator David Gentleman is responsible for the design, adapted from Mary Gillick's original, which has been in constant use on British stamps since 1968.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/...mps-26346831

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End of an era. There was a case for keeping the sillhouette as a symbol rather than a depiction of her as a person, but I guess that wouldn't be acceptable to the crown.

There is a case to keep issuing stamps showing Queen Victoria. However, neither Queen victoria, nor Queen Elizabeth II are a current symbol of the UK.

I wonder if a silhouette of Charles III will be incorporated into the design of commemorative stamps?

I also wonder how many people will draw a line under their GB collections with the passing of Elizabeth II.

Time will tell.

I think the monarch's head/silhouette is a prerequisite. Lizzie's death may be a useful break-point, as was the introduction of decimal currency.

I cancelled my standing order for commemoratives with Royal Mail, but that was because they keep messing up the IOSS scheme. As a consequence, I pay VAT to the EU and get a 30-40% surcharge that, primarily, is the cost of PostNL doing the paperwork (no choice there) because Royal Mail just does not adhere to the regulations.
My decision was helped by the fact that many issues are now rock bands and movies.

Not really a case for that. Victoria was the subject of her stamp's designs, which featured her portrait.

The sillhouette of QEII was used on pictorials, where she was not the subject of the design, as a device to signify the issuing country. That device wasn't really a portrait or a depiction of her as a person, especially not when she got older, but was used regardless because of what it stood for. Any symbol would do instead of a country name. Consistency might be better than bothering with who the sillhouette was originally based on.

They could have added a cameo of Queen Victoria. The point is more that the case for using a cameo of a former monarch is mostly being stuck in the past. The cameo is accepted, as is the definitive portrait, by the UPU because people all over the world recognise it as they are exposed to the image. That exposure has ended. New generations will not recognise the image.