House of Stuart Greetings Card

Regular price £4.00

Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

House of Stuart NPG D19756

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown engraver, sold by Charles Price, after Sir Anthony van Dyck, and after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

The son of Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, James was crowned King of Scotland in 1567, at the age of one on the abdication of his mother, and the country was run until his majority by a succession of Protestant Regents. He succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603. His commitment to peace and reconciliation balanced religious divisions, and he successfully held the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland together under one ruler for the first time. Intelligent and scholarly, his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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