Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

King George I and the line of succession NPG D32911

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Sebastian Miller (formerly Johann Sebastian Müller), after Samuel Wale

The great-grandson of James I, he became King in 1714 at the death of Queen Anne under the terms of the Act of Settlement which was designed to ensure a Protestant succession. His coronation was followed by the ill-prepared 1715 Jacobite Rising in Scotland. A distinguished soldier and Elector of Hanover from 1698, George I continued to spend much of his time at Hanover after his accession to the British throne. (The Elector was one of the princes who elected the German... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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