Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine NPG D26455
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Robert van Voerst, after Gerrit van Honthorst
Elizabeth was the only surviving daughter of James I. In 1613 she married Frederick, the Protestant ruler of the Palatinate, an area of present-day Germany. In 1619, following a rebellion against the Catholic Habsburg rulers, Frederick accepted the throne of Bohemia. He and Elizabeth were expelled after less than a year, however, in one of the early battles of the Thirty Years' War. Living in exile in The Hague, Elizabeth came to be seen as an ideal Protestant heroine; her hardships in exile,... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










