Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Maria Anne Fitzherbert (née Smythe) NPG L162

By consent of the owners; on loan to the National Portrait Gallery, London; photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Alongside his gambling, drinking and gluttony, George, Prince of Wales was notorious for his serial amorous adventures. His most extreme seduction campaign came when he met the beautiful Catholic widow Mrs Fitzherbert in 1784. She resisted his advances, but George was not going to take 'no' for an answer. He proposed despite being forbidden, as heir to the throne, to marry a Catholic.Maria declined and made plans to flee the country until she received word that 'The Prince has stabbed himself. Only you can save... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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