Overview

His Majesty Charles III celebrates his 76th birthday on 14 November 2024. Charles was born in 1948 at Buckingham Palace during the reign of his maternal grandfather, King George VI. He acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022 and was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 6 May 2023.
Since 1980, Australia Post has honoured the monarch’s birthday with a postage stamp issue released on the date of the queen or king’s actual birthday, rather than the official birthday. In most Australian states and territories this falls on the second Monday in June; in Western Australia the date varies and in Queensland the King’s official Birthday is marked on the first Monday of October.

Technical specifications

Issue date
12 November 2024
Issue withdrawal date
1 June 2025
Denomination
$1.50
Stamp & product design
Simone Sakinofsky, Australia Post Design Studio
Paper: gummed
Tullis Russell 104gsm Red Phosphor/Blue PVA Stamp Pape
Printing process
Offset lithography
Stamp size (mm)
26mm x 37.5mm
Minisheet size (mm)
135mm x 80mm
Perforations
14.6 x 13.86
Sheet layout
156mm x 101mm
FDI postmark
Charlestown NSW 2290
FDI withdrawal date
12 December 2024

Stamps in this issue

$1.50 The King's Birthday

This is the second Australian issue honouring the birthday of King Charles III. It features a photographic portrait of Charles taken in December 2023 during the recording of His Majesty’s Christmas message at Buckingham Palace. The Royal Christmas message is a much-loved tradition, first broadcast on radio in 1932 by George V. In 2023, Charles’ Christmas message to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth communicated his personal sentiments, including his hopes for world peace and our shared obligations to protect the Earth and the natural world.

The portrait on the minisheet was taken in November 2023 during Charles’ attendance at COP28 UAE, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai. In his opening address to a gathering of global leaders, Charles reiterated his long-held commitment to tackling the climate crisis: “We need to remember that the indigenous world view teaches us that we are all connected. Not only as human beings, but with all living things and all that sustains life. As part of this grand and sacred system, harmony with Nature must be maintained. The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth.”

The stamp photograph is by Jonathan Brady/WPA Pool/Getty Images. The minisheet photograph is by Chris Jackson/Getty Images.

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