Tomb of King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia in Westminster Abbey Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Tomb of King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia in Westminster Abbey NPG D33903
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Richard Gaywood
The second son of Edward (the Black Prince) and Joan, Countess of Kent, and grandson of Edward III, Richard succeeded to the throne aged ten, under the regency of his uncle John of Gaunt. Misrule, plague and war with France resulted in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381. After this early crisis, his reign was coloured by bitter fighting with the nobility, culminating in a royal campaign of arrest, execution and property confiscation in 1398. Gaunt's son, the banished noble Henry... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










