Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Queen Mary I when Princess Mary NPG D9852

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Wenceslaus Hollar, after Hans Holbein the Younger

The daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, Mary fell from favour during her parents’ navorce and was declared illegitimate. By 1544 she was reinstated in the order of succession to the throne. On the death of her half brother Edward VI she inherited the throne, and as a fervent Roman Catholic, re-introduced the old religion. Yet her marriage to Philip II of Spain and persecution of Protestants contributed to her unpopularity. It was claimed that her unhappiness at Philip’s… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.