News about Yousuf Karsh

The new stamps, which were the first set to be accepted by King Charles III, will be released in the late monarch's honour, according to the Royal Mail, and will go on general sale starting November 10. On second-class stamps, Dorothy Wilding's photograph of the Queen's accession and coronation will be included, while the first-class stamp will feature a photograph taken by Cecil Beaton in 1968, in which the monarch is seated in her admiral's cloak with her head tilted to the left. On the £1.85 stamps, a portrait taken by Yousuf Karsh in November 1984 will appear, as well as a photo taken by Tim Graham in 1996 while the Queen attended a banquet at Prague Castle during her visit to the Czech Republic.

The famous photograph (left) - nicknamed 'the Roaring Lion' and taken by Yousuf Karsh (top-inset) in 1941 - had been on display at the Château Laurier hotel (right and bottom inest) in Ottawa since 1998. However, an employee at the hotel noticed the photograph had been updated and told the police, who are now probing the case. Last Friday night, a staff member at the historic hotel, which is just down the road from Parliament Hill, noticed something wrong with the portrait. When looking at the other portraits in the lounge, which were also shot by Karsh, he realized that the frame did not match. Jerry Fielder, the hotel's general manager who was recruited by the photographer himself in 1979, was summoned to visit the Château Laurier. It was announced that it was a fake.