World in my mailbox: interesting stamps

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Sunday, 3 May 2020

0468 - EU Flag card sent from Windsor, UK - in BREXIT day - FOTW 137

Sent: 31.01.2020

Recieved: 7.02.2020

Travel time: 7 days

Sent by Nathanial - private swap

Special Postmarks if UK - Royal Mail
https://www.royalmail.com/postmarks

Amazing handling of Royal Mail - hand postmark- this is how I received the postcard:

And I choose Windsor Castle postmark from different models available for that day of 31st January:

0458 - Women who dared : Marta Gellhorn

Sent: 13.01.2020

Recieved: 28.01.2020

Travel time 15 days

Sent via postcrossing platform

wiki:

Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century.

She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945. She died in 1998 in an apparent suicide at the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind. The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism is named after her.