Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cecil Harmsworth King NPG 6613

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Graham Sutherland

This portrait was commissioned for the Board Room of IPC. But even as King sat for Sutherland, its fate was overtaken by events. For in 1968, King, convinced that the country under Harold Wilson was heading for financial disaster, proposed an emergency government under Lord Mountbatten. Advised by Solly Zuckerman that this would be treason, Mountbatten refused. After an inflammatory piece in the Mirror, King was dismissed by IPC and retired to Ireland with his second wife, Ruth Railton, the founder of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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