Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham NPG D1130

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Isaac Beckett, after Simon Verelst

The son of James I's favourite, Buckingham fought for the royalist side during the Civil War and was exiled, but he later returned to England and married the daughter of the parliamentarian General Fairfax, in the hope of regaining his lands. At the Restoration he was favoured by Charles II, helped to engineer the downfall of Clarendon and became a member of the Cabal. Famous for his intrigues and immorality, he seduced the Countess of Shrewsbury and fought her husband in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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