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The Royal Mail have announced that four special stamps of the Queen will be released to commemorate the nation's longest-serving monarch.

The Prince of Wales has faced some major moments on the public stage during his 41 years. From walking behind his mother’s coffin to meeting world leaders, William has always appeared respectful, calm and capable – just like his stoic late grandmother.

King Charles has recorded a poignant message and released a favourite photograph of his mum to mark the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death and his accession to throne. In words written and audio spoken at Balmoral Castle where the Queen died on September 8 last year, the King said he recalled with “great affection her long life, devoted service and all she meant to so many of us”.Today (Friday) is a year since the nation’s longest-reigning monarch, who served as Queen for 70 years, died peacefully of old age at 96 just months after her Platinum Jubilee.The formal colour photograph chosen by King Charles was taken by Cecil Beaton and shows a young Queen, then 42, at an official portrait sitting in 1968.

Jamie Reid, the artist and graphic designer whose work for the Sex Pistols defined the punk aesthetic, has died at 76.

King Charles is gearing up for the biggest day of his life. On Saturday, Charles and Camilla will officially be crowned the king and queen of England during their coronation.

Ex-Sex Pistol John Lydon went by Johnny Rotten during the 1970s golden age of punk and famously gave angry, snarled voice to the era’s anti-monarchist sentiment with the band’s scabrous musical indictment “God Save The Queen.”

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticOver the course of just three features, filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland has already made a stamp on that documentary subgenre culture hounds find most irresistible — the 20th-century personality portrait — taking names we know well (Diana Vreeland, Peggy Guggenheim and Cecil Beaton) and sharing the private realms of their creative worlds.