I found several, but none where I know who the statue represents.
Cyprus - 2 September 1968
Issued for the 20th Anniversary of WHO, I guess that this is Aristotle - at least it's the right number of letters in the name.
Greece - 21 November 1966 - Folk art statues
Greece - 28 February 1967 - Greek sculptors
I had hoped to honour Prince Phillip today but the nearest I could get was this miniature sheet Scanned from the collect GB stamps website) showing the memorial to another royal consort.
O - Osborne House "It's impossible to imagine a prettier spot." That's what Queen Victoria said of Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.
North face of Osborne House, IOW (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The Osborne estate was in the hands of the Blachford family from 1705. Robert Pope Blachford adapted an existing house there in the period 1774 to 1781.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert initially leased that house from the Blachford family before buying it in 1845. As it was too small for them Albert commissioned the master builder and developer, Thomas Cubitt to advise him.
Work on a new house began in 1846, the old house was demolished in 1848 and the new Osborne House's main wing was completed in 1851.
Prince Albert died of typhoid in 1861 and Victoria never really recovered from his death. She was to die at Osborne in 1901.
Neither Edward VII nor any other royal family member wanted the upkeep of the house and estate so , in 1902, he gave Osborne to the nation.
The house and Victoria and Albert's private rooms were sealed on Edward's orders but have been open to the public, with Queen Elizabeth's permission, since 1954.
English Heritage became responsible for management of Osborne in 1986. Since then other parts have accessible to the public as well, including the beach where Victoria used to bathe.
The Albert Memorial was one of a set of stamps of London Landmarks issued on 6 May 1980.
Great Britain
The memorial, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, is situated in Kensington Gardens. It was commissioned by Queen Victoria to commemorated her husband, Prince Albert, who died of typhoid in 1861.
My next two stamps have a French connection although they are both from the USA.
USA - 28.8.1945 - US soldiers passing the Arc du Triomphe
The Statue of Liberty appears on many stamps, the one I have chosen to show is the oldest in my collection.
USA - 20.8.47
A Lockheed Constellation flies over the Statue and the New York skyline - pity the franking has obscured so much.
HRH The Princess Beatrice was the fifth daughter and
youngest child of Queen Victoria who edited the journals and diaries of Queen Victoria after her death.
From her marriage in 1885 until 1917 she was known as Princess Henry of
Battenberg.
Princess Beatrice in her wedding dress 1885
(coloured bookplate)
There is no link to Victoria or the Royal Family in my next picture, it's from just over a hundred years after the wedding of Victoria and Albert.
Cutting the cake - 1958
It reminds me that it is our wedding anniversary next week. I wonder what happened to that hair!
Princess Beatrice's full name was Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore. The present Princess Beatrice of York is Beatrice Elizabeth Mary and she is not married yet,
Princess Beatrice of York - 2005
(At an equestrian event)
In Sweden in 2010 a Crown Princess was married.
Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling
(Cortège at Slottsbaken 19 June 2010 - Author Holger Motzkau 2010; cc-by-sa 3.0)
Before you go to check our other wedding related posts at SS-140 you might like to walk down the aisle with our last Royal bride.
Incidentally Princess Beatrice of York wore an infamous hat at this wedding, not at all like that held by the groom on
