Maria Clementina Sobieska Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Maria Clementina Sobieska NPG D32663

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Jakob Frey the Elder

The pious and beautiful Maria Clementina was granddaughter to King John III of Poland, and goddaughter to Pope Clement XI. When she was sixteen she married James Francis Edward Stuart, the exiled King of Great Britain. They settled in Rome, but the marriage soon degenerated. Clementina realised that her husband would never regain the British throne, and in 1725 she ran away to a convent. Although she returned to Rome, her physical and mental health deteriorated and she spent little time with her... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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