In that case, maybe someone local in Sussex could buy them for you and immediately stick them in the post? They will travel OK in the normal mail as long as you let them breathe and have queen candy (honey stiffened with caster sugar) and attendents in the cage.

If you plan to build-up from a few queens with Colonsay parentage in an isolated area, then try to make as many queens as you can in one step. Naturally out-mated queens carry semen from 10-20 drones. The upshot of that is that if you make 10-20 queens you will keep most of that genetic diversity which came originally in the queen's spermatheca in addition to her own genes (only two variants of each gene there). Make one daughter queen, then do your build-up in the next generation and you will have at most three variants of each gene, rather than up to 22.

Basically, as long as your II queen was inseminated with well-mixed sperm, you can avoid significant inbreeding in the way I've described. In theory anyway!

G.