Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Frances, Countess of Somerset NPG D28099

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Perfect Harding, after Isaac Oliver

A famous beauty, Frances Howard was divorced from Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex in 1613 and married Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, a favourite of James I. In 1615 she and her second husband, along with several accomplices, were convicted of poisoning Sir Thomas Overbury, who had opposed their marriage. Although the couple were imprisoned until 1621, they were later pardoned of their crime. History, and their contemporaries, judged Frances more harshly than her husband. It was said of Somerset:... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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