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First Welsh postbox with King's cypher unveiled

BBC Four school children and a man with grey hair in a black suit stood in front of a red postbox carrying Kind Charles' insignia with a red cloth on the floor BBC

The first postbox in Wales bearing King Charles III's cypher has been installed.

Located by a delivery office on Severn Street, in Welshpool, Powys, it was unveiled by pupils from Welshpool High School and Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Powys, Tony Evans.

The first letter was posted into the box by the children, who had been asked to write a letter to the King about what they did to look after the environment.

Royal Mail's David Gold said: "Over 115,000 postboxes throughout the UK have borne the symbols of successive monarchs since the first box displayed Queen Victoria's cypher."

The King's cypher consists of the initial of the monarch's name, Charles III, and title, Rex – Latin for King - beneath a Tudor crown.

Postboxes were introduced across the UK in 1853 after a trial in the Channel Islands.

The first in the UK bearing the King's cypher was unveiled in July last year in Cambridgeshire.