Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII) as Prince of Wales NPG 7006

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Frank Salisbury

During the First World War Edward’s request to serve was refused owing to the potential dangers. Despite being a non-combatant, he spent most of the war visiting troops. This oil sketch was painted in France on the Western Front in September 1917. It is recorded and illustrated in volume V of Salisbury’s collected archive as no.2. The artist later recorded the sitting: ‘... the Prince of Wales was going to sit for me around three o’clock. I was introduced to the commander, Lord Cavan, who... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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