2019 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Queen Victoria and her husband, Albert Prince Consort. Victoria is the second longest-reigning monarch in British history and the stamps - three 1st class NVI and £1.25, £1.55 and £1.60 - depict six scenes from her long life: Queen and Empress in 1890; with Benjamin Disraeli (her favourite Prime Minister); with her servant John Brown; in her Robes of State; her marriage to Prince Albert and as a young princess aged eleven.
The BS set comprises six covers each with an enlarged image of the portrait featured on each stamp together with an appropriate handstamp and a unifying VR 1819-2019 Bicentenary cachet.
