Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine NPG 71

© National Portrait Gallery, London

studio of Michiel Jansz. van Miereveldt

In this portrait she may be shown wearing the famous Medici Pearls, also known as the Hanover Pearls, six strands joined together in a thick rope. The pearls have a long history. They were originally given to Catherine of Medici by Pope Clement VII; she in turn gave them to her daughter-in-law, Mary, Queen of Scots. When Mary died the pearls were, it is thought, confiscated by Elizabeth I. On Elizabeth's death they passed to Mary's son James I who gave them... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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