Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary, Queen of Scots NPG 429

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Nicholas Hilliard

This portrait, which was once in the Royal Collection, is probably based on an image from the life. The Latin inscription records that she has been a prisoner for ten years. The cross attached to her rosary bears the letter 'S' (possibly for Stewart) on each of its arms. At its centre is an enamelled scene of Susannah and the Elders surrounded by a Latin motto which can be translated as 'troubles on all sides'. Although this portrait was once thought to be later, recent... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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