This special issue, Devoted to your Service, is a collaboration between 11 postal administrations, which sees four Crown Dependencies – Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar – become part of a co-ordinated collection undertaken by Creative Direction (Worldwide) Ltd, which manages the stamp design and print programme for several overseas territories - the Falkland Islands, British Virgin Islands, British Antarctic Territory, Ascension Island, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Tristan da Cunha and the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

Each of the Crown Dependencies and overseas territories have produced commemorative stamps bearing the same titles – Princess, Coronation, Marriage, Leisure, Pageantry and Royal Duty – although each feature different images of Her Majesty on these themes. We are delighted that our Princess stamp, depicting ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth and her corgi Dookie, is one of 11 stamps to feature on a joint Sheetlet.

The production of these special stamps and related products has been undertaken by respected specialist stamp printers, commissioned on behalf of the Post Offices by Tim Underwood of Creative Direction (Worldwide) Ltd, who has been exclusively involved with the commissioning of design and production of stamps for over 30 years.