Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Marguerite Hyde ('Daisy', née Leiter), Countess of Suffolk when Miss Leiter NPG Ax41245

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Thomson, photogravure by Walker & Boutall

Whilst visiting her sister, Mary Curzon, in India for the 1903 Delhi Durbar celebrations, Daisy met the Viceroy's aide-de-camp, Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk and 12th Earl of Berkshire. The Earl was known to be short of money and the New York Times noted when reporting on the engagement that the Earl's 'estate [Charlton Park] ... in Wiltshire will be restored to the glory of its former days'. In her final years, she became a helicopter enthusiast, flying from her Cornish home to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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