Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

King Edward NPG 4049

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Iocetel, from a die attributed to Theodoric

Born between 1003 and 1005, the son of King Ethelred II the Unready and Emma, daughter of Richard II of Normandy, he became King in 1043. For the first eleven years of his reign the real ruler of England was Godwine, Earl of Wessex. Despite Edward marrying Godwine's daughter Edith, there was a breach between the two men. When Godwine died in 1053, his son Harold succeeded him. It was Harold, not Edward, who dealt with Welsh and Northumbrian rebellions. Consequently, before his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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