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The Queen through the decades: Golden Jubilee stamps

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2002 stamp for The Queens Golden Jubilee from a 1968 photograph by Cecil Beaton2002 stamp for The Queens Golden Jubilee from a 1996 photograph by Tim Graham

A rather different set of stamps were issued for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee in 2002. Taking the same idea as the 60th birthday issue - photographic portraits from throughout her life - the Golden Jubilee issue used an image from each of the five decades of her reign, one per stamp.

The stamps were close-up portraits by renowned photographers; including Dorothy Wilding, Cecil Beaton, Lord Snowdon, Yousuf Karsh, and Tim Graham.

2002 stamp for The Queens Golden Jubilee from a 1978 photograph by Lord Snowdon2002 stamp for The Queens Golden Jubilee from a 1984 photograph by Yousuf Karsh