King Richard II Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
King Richard II NPG D23717
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Renold or Reginold Elstrack (Elstracke)
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.










