Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary (née Kirke), Lady Vernon NPG D39235

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Alexander Browne, after Sir Peter Lely

Maid of Honour to Mary of Modena, Duchess of York (1673-75) and mistress of the Duke of Monmouth. Her father George Kirke, an impoverished royalist, was Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles II and Housekeeper of Whitehall Palace. Mary Kirke and her sister Diana (later Countess of Oxford) both conducted notorious affairs at court. In 1675 she took refuge in a convent in France but subsequently became the mistress of Sir Thomas Vernon, 2nd Bt. of Hodnet, whom she married in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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