Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Philip II, King of Spain NPG D24886

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown artist

The son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Philip married Mary I against the wishes of Parliament and people in 1554. A deeply religious man, he subsequently made an offer of marriage to Elizabeth after Mary's death, with the proviso that she must convert to Roman Catholicism. He was reluctant to go to war against England thirty years later, and claimed that his motivation was the re-conversion of the country to Catholicism. However, issues of reputation and defence were of equal, if... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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