Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Victoria, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia NPG D31860

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alphonse Léon Noël, printed by Lemercier Bernard et Cie, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Victoria married Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858. The Queen and Prince Albert hoped that Victoria's marriage to the future King of Prussia would cement close ties between London and Berlin, and possibly lead to the emergence of a unified and liberal Germany. After the three wars of German unification (1864-71), the victorious princes of the North German Confederation proclaimed a German Empire with King William I of Prussia as the hereditary German Emperor. On his death in 1888, his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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