Conversation piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Conversation piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor NPG 3778
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Sir James Gunn
The portrait shows King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), and her sister Princess Margaret. Throughout the Second World War, the Royal Family remained in London, and when Buckingham Palace received a direct hit the queen said, ‘now we can look the East End in the face’. Determination to share in the fate of the nation increased the monarchy’s popularity. In this post-war portrait, the informality of the presentation, for which the Queen was responsible, was entirely new. The setting is... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










