Spice Girls stamps – Royal Mail unveils new collection featuring iconic group

THE Spice Girls feature on a collection of stamps to celebrate their 30th anniversary.

One of the 15 stamps shows them at the 1997 Brit Awards.

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The Spice Girls are only the sixth music group to feature in a dedicated stamp issue, following on from The Beatles in 2007, Pink Floyd in 2016, Queen in 2020, The Rolling Stones in 2022 and Iron Maiden in 2023.

And they are the first girl band to be celebrated by Royal Mail.

Geri Horner, Mel B, Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton and Mel C said: “That’s Girl Power!”

The Spice Girls got their first No1 hit with Wannabe, which released on July 20, 1996.

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It stayed at the top of the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks.

The song was the first of six successive No1 hits.

The Spice Girls failed to make it seven in a row when Stop only reached No2 in 1998.

They then followed that up with three more number ones.

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