'Marriage of the Princess Charlotte of Wales to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg' Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Marriage of the Princess Charlotte of Wales to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg' NPG D16053
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Robert Hicks, published by Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon, after William Marshall Craig
Charlotte's parents separated a few months after her birth, their marriage having lasted only a year. Charlotte was brought up by governesses and saw little of her mother. Contemporary descriptions of Princess Charlotte suggest that she was a 'well-set, young beautiful woman' with a masculine manner. Sir Thomas Lawrence found her 'wanting in elegance of deportment', but noted that 'if she does nothing gracefully, she does everything kindly'. She married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg in 1816. They enjoyed only a few months of... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










