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The House of Tudor - 21 April
2009 - stamps and miniature sheet
The Houses of Tudor is the
second in an annual series that will take a look at the Kings
and Queens of England, Scotland and after 1603 the United Kingdom.
The first in the series was the Houses
of
Lancaster and York.
From the Battle of Bosworth
Field in 1485 to the death of Good Queen Bess in 1603, the age of The
House of Tudor was forged in bloodshed. Grasping the crown on the
battlefield, Henry Tudor’s claim on the throne may have been
slender, but he went on to create a dynasty that saw some of the best
known of our Kings and Queens sit upon the English throne. Like
Lancaster & York, this second issue features
individual portraits of the monarchs, complemented with a four-stamp
miniature sheet illustrating significant people and events from the
period.
Face
values
of the 56p and 72p have been changed to 62p and 81p as a
result
of postage rate increases.
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1st
class: Henry VII (1457-1509)
&
Henry VIII (1509-1547);
62p*
Edward VI (1547-1553) &
Lady Jane Grey (1553);
81p*
Mary (1553-1558) &
Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
Portraits
of Henry VII and Lady Jane Grey by unknown artists; other
credits see
'Technical Details'
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The MS takes a separate
look at the life and times of the age, featuring events and
individuals
from the reigns.
The
events featured are:
1st
class
Henry VIII’s great Battleship
the Mary
Rose
launched in 1510, & the royal conference between England and
France in 1520 known as the Field
of
Cloth of Gold.
90p* expanding
commerce with the
foundation of the Royal
Exchange
in 1565, & the circumnavigation of the world completed by Sir
Francis Drake
in 1580. The border design features a timeline of the period.
* Face values have
changed due to increased postage rates.
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Mary
Rose © The Art Archive/Magdalene College Cambridge/Eileen
Tweedy;
The Field of Cloth of Gold, 1520, The Royal Collection
© 2008 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II;
The Royal Exchange of London, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644 © The
Trustees of the British Museum;
Sir Francis Drake, 1581, Nicholas Hilliard
(1547–1619)/Kunsthistorisches Museum, Austria/The Bridgeman
Art Library |
Background on the stamps
1st
Class – Henry VII (1457-1509)
Son of Edmund Tudor and Lady Margaret Beaufort. He defeated Richard III
at Bosworth, and then spent the next fifteen years surviving successive
plots and rebellions. He was a great patron of the arts, builder, and a
very efficient ruler. He commissioned Europe's first ever, and the
world's oldest surviving, dry dock at Portsmouth in 1495.
Born
Pembroke Castle 28 Jan 1457; Acceded
22 August 1485; Crowned
30 October 1485 Westminster Abbey; Died
21 April 1509 Richmond Palace
1st
Class - Henry
VIII (1509-1547)
The son of Henry VII. Famously married six times to secure male heirs.
He presided over the English Reformation and more political executions
than any other English monarch.
Born
Greenwich 28 June 1491; Acceded
22 April 1509; Crowned
24 June1509 Westminster Abbey; Died
28 Jan 1547 Whitehall
62p
– Edward VI (1547-1553)
Son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward became King at the age of
nine and died age 15 from tuberculosis. During his reign reform of the
Church continued with the issue of the Book of Common Prayer.
England’s first Protestant ruler.
Born
Hampton Court Palace 12 Oct 1537; Acceded
28 Jan 1547; Crowned
20 Feb 1547 Westminster Abbey; Died
6 July 1553 Greenwich Palace
62p
– Lady Jane Grey (1553)
Second cousin to Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey was named by Edward and his
first minister Northumberland as heir to ensure the Protestant
succession and reigned from 19 July 1553 for nine days before being
deposed by Mary. Beheaded in 1554 after the failure of Sir Thomas
Wyatt’s attempt to depose Mary.
81p
– Mary (1553-1558)
Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, Mary was the first
woman to rule England in her own right. Restored the Roman Catholic
Church in England, but is remembered for her savage persecution of
Protestants, about three hundred were burned earning her the name
Bloody Mary.
Born
Greenwich Palace 18 Feb 1516; Acceded
19 July 1553; Crowned
1 Oct 1553 Westminster Abbey; Died
17 Nov 1558 St James's Palace
81p
– Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She turned England into the
dominant maritime power, and she presided over a return to the
Protestant Church and a tremendous national flowering of literature.
Her failure to marry and produce an heir left the royal succession open
for the House of Stuart.
Born
Greenwich Palace Palace 7 Sept 1533; Acceded
17 Nov 1558; Crowned
15 Jan 1559 Westminster Abbey; Died
24 March 1603 Richmond Palace
Miniature
Sheet
1st Class - Mary Rose
Henry VIII’s great battleship was launched in 1510. It sank
in the Solent in 1545.
1st
Class - Field of Cloth of Gold
The site of a spectacular meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of
France to increase the bonds of friendship between France and England
in 1520.
81p
– Royal Exchange
The Royal Exchange was founded in 1565 as a centre of commerce for the
City of London.
81p
– Sir Francis Drake
The Elizabethan adventurer and explorer who circumnavigated the globe
in 1580.
Technical details:
Royal Portrait credits:
Edward VI (1537–53), c.1546, attributed to William Scrots,
The Royal Collection © 2008 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
II;
King Henry VIII (oil on oak
panel),Hans Holbein the Younger
(1497/8–1543)/Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid,
Spain/The Bridgeman
Art Library;
Mary I by Antonis Moro or Mor
(1516–75) © The Art Archive/Museo del Prado
Madrid;
Elizabeth I by Federico Zuccari
(1540/42–1609) © The Art Archive/Pinacoteca
Nazionale di Siena/Gianni Dagli Orti
The designs are by Atelier
Works, and the 27 x 37mm stamps are printed in litho by Cartor Security
Printers, Meacé, France.
The miniature sheet is 123 x 70mm.
All images
are Copyright Royal Mail 2009.
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Special
Postmarks
Postmarks available for the day of issue will be shown here.
these may not be to scale.
These
postmarks cannot be obtained after the date of issue.
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Ref FD911
Philatelic Bureau Official Postmark |
Ref FD912 London SE10
Official Postmark (non-pictorial version also available FD912NP) |
Ref L11326
Tower Hill, London EC3 |
Ref M11336
Tudor Road, Birmingham |
Ref L11323
The House of Tudor, Hatfield, Hertfordshire |
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Ref L11327
Hampton Court, East Molesey |
Ref L11318
Elizabeth I, The Last Tudor Queen, Hatfield Herts |
Ref L11317
First Day of Issue Royal Mail Hampton Court, East Molesey, Surrey
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Ref L11322 500th Ann of
Accession of Henry VIII, London SE |
Ref L11321
Cornhill,
London EC3 (Grasshopper, symbol of Thomas Gresham, who founded the
Royal Exchange.) |
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Ref L11316
Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, Greenwich, London SE10 |
Ref L11319
500th Ann of Mary Rose, Portsmouth |
L11320
The Age of the Tudors, Portsmouth |
L11329 500th
Ann of Mary Rose, 500 Pour Defender AD1535, Portmsouth |
Ref: L11324
The House of Tudor, London |
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Ref N11338
The House of Tudor, Chopwell |
Ref W11341
Sir Francis (the) Drake, Tavistock |
Ref L11328
The Mary Rose, Portsmouth |
Ref L11330
pda pqzkno, Bletchley Park Post Office, Milton Keynes |
Ref L4674
Portsmouth permanent postmark. |
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Ref L11315
Tudor Way, London N14 |
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Ref L4665
Tower Hill, London EC3 |
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