Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary ('Minnie', née Stevens), Lady Paget as Cleopatra NPG Ax41154

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Thomson, photogravure by Walker & Boutall

Minnie Stevens came to Europe in 1872, having inherited the fortune of her father, the New York hotelier, Paran Stevens. She turned down numerous marriage proposals, earning the nickname, the 'Great Heiress', until an embarrassing episode in which a would-be suitor retracted his offer after discovering that her dowry was not as large as boasted. Minnie then re-alighted on a previously dashed proposal from Captain Arthur Paget, grandson of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, whom she married in London in 1878. The ... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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