Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine NPG D32639

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Faber Sr, published by George Bickham the Younger, after Michiel Jansz. van Miereveldt

Elizabeth was the only surviving daughter of James I. In 1613 she married Frederick, the Protestant ruler of the Palatinate, an area of present-day Germany. In 1619, following a rebellion against the Catholic Habsburg rulers, Frederick accepted the throne of Bohemia. He and Elizabeth were expelled after less than a year, however, in one of the early battles of the Thirty Years' War. Living in exile in The Hague, Elizabeth came to be seen as an ideal Protestant heroine; her hardships in exile,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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