Stamp design gaffe tears Kate and William apart
By Emma Kemp of Yahoo! UK
It may come as a shock, but Kate Middleton and Prince William have "split" less than one month before they are due to tie the knot.
The Royal Wedding commemorative stamp, launched last week, is actually a double stamp -- with the prince on one, his bride on the other and a perforated line down the middle.
Effectively, Wills and Kate can be torn apart.
The second-in-line to the throne is also worth 96 Singapore cents (47 pence) more than his bride - with Kate's side worth S$2.34, and her husband-to-be S$7.
Together the Royal Wedding stamps are worth S$5.67 .
It is predicted the unusual stamp will soon become a collectors' item.
Editor of Gibbons Stamp Monthly, Hugh Jefferies, has labelled the stamp "embarrassing", saying it had not been designed well.
He said Buckingham Palace would surely have had to approve the design, but suggested they would not have been shown the perforation down the middle.
"Whoever designed this will have egg on their face and someone's head will roll," Mr Jefferies said.
"I'm sure they didn't mean to ominously suggest the couple could be easily separated, it's just a very bizarre design.
"They are a lovely looking couple and the stamps stand alone well, it's just unfortunate the separation line is between them."
This is not the first Royal Wedding-related gaffe NZ Post has made, after an embarrassing mistake forced it to recall more than 2,000 Royal Wedding stamp collection packs in March.
The presentation text on the packs included the wrong birth date for the Prince — stating it as 21 May, 1982, instead of the correct date, 21 June.
A spokesman from NZ Post said the error was not picked up during the checking process and that it is regrettable and embarrassing.
