Elizabeth II’s effigy tickets will continue to circulate in parallel and will only be withdrawn when they are damaged to “minimize the environmental and financial impact of the change of monarch”, according to the directives of the royal house .
Le Monde with AFP
The first banknotes in the image of the new King Charles III will come into circulation in mid-2014 in the United Kingdom, but the portrait will be revealed at the end of this year, the Bank of England announced Tuesday, September 27, . The portrait of the monarch “will appear on the existing models of the four polymer tickets” of 5, 10, 20 and 50 pounds, “and no additional modification” will be made, according to a statement released a week after the funeral of Elizabeth II.
The stocks of existing tickets, which is the sovereign deceased, will be put into circulation as planned, while the new polymer currency – which has gradually replaced paper currency in the United Kingdom since 2016 – will only be printed to take The place “worn tickets and to meet any overall increase in demand”.
The Buckingham Palace also unveiled the new royal monogram – the initials of Charles III -, which will be displayed on government buildings and mailboxes, and stamped on official documents.
End of royal mourning this Tuesday
Under Elizabeth II, the monogram was “eiir”, for Elizabeth II Regina (queen in Latin). The royal monogram will become “ciiir” for Charles III Rex (King in Latin). On the images of the monogram revealed by Buckingham, the C and the R are intertwined and a crown floats above the initials.
The letters out of the Buckingham Palace will be flanked by the new “CIIIR” on Tuesday, the date marking the end of the royal mourning for the queen deceased on 8 September at the age of 96. The Buckingham Post Office sees some 2,000 packages and letters each year pass, between invitations, responses to official letters or cards and mail.
After the national anthem, now sung in its male version, “God Save the King”, many aspects of daily life in the United Kingdom will change with the accession of Charles III to the throne.
The new king’s face will thus begin to appear on the currencies across the Channel, but also in other countries of the world, or even on British stamps. The names of the government of “Her Majesty” His Majesty), Treasury and Customs have already become those of “His Majesty”.