Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales NPG D33514

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Meyer, published by Rudolph Ackermann, after Alfred Edward Chalon

Charlotte's parents separated a few months after her birth, their marriage having lasted only a year. Charlotte was brought up by governesses and saw little of her mother. Contemporary descriptions of Princess Charlotte suggest that she was a 'well-set, young beautiful woman' with a masculine manner. Sir Thomas Lawrence found her 'wanting in elegance of deportment', but noted that 'if she does nothing gracefully, she does everything kindly'. She married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg in 1816. They enjoyed only a few months of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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