New Zealand
New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark became the sixth world leader to honor my request.
Apparently she's a woman of few words. Enclosed were the photograph and a blank 'with compliments' piece of stationary. The envelope contained no further correspondence.
As with the envelope from Bermuda this envelope had the words "on Her Majesty's service" printed on it. Can anyone elaborate on it's meaning?
posted by Joel at 12:56 AM
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I don't know whether it's the photo or your scanning, but it seems narrowed. Compare at Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Clark
Yeah, for about 4-5 decades now, the Queen is separately the monarch of the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. (although some Commonwealth members have converted to Republics -- and Australians keep talking about it). Thus they are several countries who share the same monarch, but not the same government.
Theoretically each state could in future enact its own succession legislation and the royal lines could diverge. This happened with the Netherlands and Luxembourg about a century ago, for example.
On her Majety's service, means that it is government mail and no postage is required. Government mail in Canada used to have that on it until the frogs took over.
You are lucky - in the UK most mail stamped "On Her Majesties Service" tends to be from the Tax Department.
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