The Danish Queen's 40th Jubilee on Greenlandic #stamp

Today, POST Greenland issues a stamp in collaboration with the postal services of the Faroe Islands and Denmark on the occasion of the first forty years of her Majesty the Queen's reign.

 

POST Greenland is very proud to issue a large and beautiful stamp featuring the portrait of her majesty the Queen. The portrait, which adorns the stamp, was painted by Mikael Melbye while the engraving was created by Martin Mörck.

 

The stamp is a joint issue in collaboration with Post Danmark and Posta Faroe Islands. The stamp issue marks the 40th jubilee of her Majesty, which is a festive event to bemarked all over the entire Commonwealth of the Realm in 2012. Read more about the stamp issue at www.stamps.gl.

 

When her Majesty Queen Margrethe II (Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid) ascended the Danish throne on 15th January 1972 and was proclaimed Queen by the then Prime Minister  Jens Otto Krag, Greenland and the Faeroe islands also had a new monarch with a great fondness for the northern parts of the kingdom.

 

Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II is most dear in the Greenlanders' hearts. Her Majesty the Queen is known for her many journeys to Greenland, where Her Majesty has done her fair share of visits to towns as well as settlements on the west and east coast and the northern parts of Greenland.

 

Especially, on two wonderful occasions, it has been a great honour to receive Her Majesty. The first occasion was at the handing over of the home rule law on 1st May 1979 to the then chairman of the parliament, Mr. Lars Chemnitz, on the day of introduction of the home rule law; and, again, in the same parliament, when the autonomy law was handed over to the chairman of the parliament, Mr. Josef Motzfeldt, in June 2009.

We, in Greenland, congratulate Her Majesty and look forward to the next time we may bid the Queen welcome back to Greenland.

 

If you have any questions, please contact Philatelic Manager, Allan Pertti Frandsen,

Yours sincerely POST Greenland

CORDIALES SALUDOS  JUAN FRANCO CRESPO