#longestreign

Making like the tardy White Rabbit, I have breaking belated new year news: yesterday, 6th Feb, was the first day of the new British Regnal Year, known as 66 Eliz 2. I was so busy ignoring the sapphire anniversary of HRH's ascension that this passed me by. For true geekitude on coverting dates to Regnal Years, check out: http://people.albion.edu/imacinnes/calendar//Regnal_Years.html

Another milestone. Back in September on the 9th the Queen became the longest serving reigning monarch surpassing Queen Victoria’s reign. This indeed needed a mailer to celebrate this. I thought I’d let the dates speak for themselves by using matching stamps with the same number values. The top mailers stamps spelt out the date she became the longest reigning monarch, 9.9.2015, and the bottom used the years which she has reigned, 1952-2015. Now I posted both at the same time and from the same place, but one turned up mashed, opened, badly franked with biro on the stamps that didn’t get franked, while the other turned up a day later sealed in a 1st class bag with perfect souvenir franks. Why? Who knows, they both didn’t add up to a 1st class stamp, can only guess they got one over the other, or just maybe took offence that on one I spelt monarch wrong!

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To celebrate the Queen becoming the longest reigning monarch, we’ve been tweeting clippings from the Chicago Herald American from 6 February 1952 - the day the Queen became Queen! Here is a selection of the photos, stories and adverts featured in the paper that day!

Treated to another fireworks display tonight from my flat! #CongratsQueen #LongestReign 🇬🇧🇬🇧 (at The Royal Yacht BRITANNIA)