Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Reginald Pole NPG D40296

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Charles Picart, published by Lackington, Allen & Co, and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, after Harold Crease, after Unknown artist

The great-nephew of Richard III, and therefore of royal blood, Pole was favoured by Henry VIII. However, rather than accept Henry as head of the English Church, he chose exile abroad. While in exile he was appointed a cardinal in 1536 and was considered for papal office in 1549. Under Mary he returned to England as Archbishop of Canterbury but arguably failed to fully restore the country to Catholicism.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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