With the change of postal prices on 3 January 2000, a new definitive series stamp featuring Queen Margrethe II was issued. The new price is DKK 5.75 and is the new rate for domestic A-post between 50 and 100 grams. The stamp is printed in steel engraving, with format 23.60 x 20.20 mm, in sheet of 100.

The Queen series is one of the three definitive series stamps features a portrait of the reigning monarch.

The first definitive series featuring Queen Margrethe II was issued on 21 February 1974. It featured a reproduction of a bust sculpted by Knud    Nellemose, and was engraved by Czeslaw Slania, the royal engraver.  The 10th anniversary of Queen Margrethe II's accession to the throne was a  natural occasion to change the definitive series and introduce a new portrait of Her Majesty the Queen by the photographer Grethe Lissner. The typography was by graphic artist Lisbeth Gasparski, and the engraving by Arne Khlmann. This type was first issued on 14 January 1982. The third version of the definitive series stamp featuring the Queen's portrait was issued on 5 April 1990 to mark Queen Margrethe's 50th birthday. The photograph was by Rigmor Mydtskov, the typography by graphic artist Morten Strup and the engraving by Czeslaw Slania. Post Denmark issued the fourth, and current, version of the definitive stamp featuring a portrait of Her Majesty on 14 January 1997 to mark her silver jubilee. The photograph was by Rigmor Mydtskov, the composition and typography by graphic artist Bent Rohde and the engraving by Martin Mrck.