Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Henry, Duke of Gloucester NPG D29320

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Cornelis van Dalen the Younger, after Simon Luttichuys, published by Nicolaes Visscher II

Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was the Protestant brother of Charles II of England. The third son of Charles I, he visited his father the night before his execution. For the next three years he was confined by the Commonwealth regime. In 1652 Oliver Cromwell gave him permission to go abroad, and he joined his mother and brothers in Paris. His firm adherence to the Protestant religion, however, incensed his Roman Catholic mother, Queen Henrietta Maria. She turned him out after which... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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