The Queen: Cash, stamps and flags: how royal symbols will now change

[mysteryowl]

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Source: The Guardian

Unpicking Queen Elizabeth’s name, image and iconography from public life will take some time.

When George VI died in his sleep at Sandringham during the early hours of 6 February 1952, his eldest daughter, Princess Elizabeth, then visiting Kenya with her husband, immediately became Queen Elizabeth II.

“The same simultaneous process will occur at the death of Queen Elizabeth and assumption of the throne by King Charles III,” Robert Blackburn, a professor of constitutional law at King’s College London, has told parliament.

However, after the Queen’s record-breaking reign, unpicking her name, image and iconography from the fabric of national life in the UK and across the Commonwealth will take much longer. These are some of the things that will need to change.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/08/queen-death-cash-stamps-flags

[Aristus]

1. Every mailbox, phone booth, official plaque, royal signage,

police badge, even the hilts of military sabers has the initials E II R, Elizabeth Regina II. And those will all have to be changed for Charles. I expect it will take years.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. They don't change the postboxes, just use a new mark on future ones

So there are still George VI ones around: https://lbsg.org/about-boxes/ciphers/king-george-vi/

Not sure if there's an initial or number on the phone boxes (which are vanishingly rare these days): https://londonist.com/london/history/jubilee-red-phone-box

[Aristus]

4. I didn't know that.

That's interesting.

[Sogo]

2. I wouldn't be surprised if the preparations for some of those changes

have been in the works for some time.

[cstanleytech]

5. They could save a lot of cash in the future by doing things such as

having famous landmarks or people who are already deceased on their flags and money.
As for a flag for the monarch themselves it should be a simple one with Buckingham palace on it in gold.

[Omaha Steve]

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