King Edward ('the Confessor') Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
King Edward ('the Confessor') NPG D23597
© National Portrait Gallery, London
after Unknown artist
Born between 1003 and 1005, the son of King Ethelred II the Unready and Emma, daughter of Richard II of Normandy, he became King in 1043. For the first eleven years of his reign the real ruler of England was Godwine, Earl of Wessex. Despite Edward marrying Godwine's daughter Edith, there was a breach between the two men. When Godwine died in 1053, his son Harold succeeded him. It was Harold, not Edward, who dealt with Welsh and Northumbrian rebellions. Consequently, before his... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










