Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Leopold I, King of the Belgians NPG D22136

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Meyer, published by Rudolph Ackermann, after Alfred Edward Chalon

Leopold joined the Russian army in 1805. In 1816, he married Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, heiress to the British throne. The following year she gave birth to a stillborn son and she herself died. After Belgium asserted its independence from the Netherlands in 1830, the Belgian National Congress asked Leopold to become king of the newly formed country and became King in 1831. In 1840 Leopold arranged the marriage of his niece Queen Victoria, the daughter of his sister Princess Victoria... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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