le duc de Buckingham et sa famille vous offrent joyeux fêtes 2011

Merry christmas and a successful new year 2012 

from George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham* , 

scourge of Louis XIII, 

paramour of Queen Anne d'Autriche (Dumas père), 

hopeful liberator of La Rochelle, 

general coxcomb
+
military booby

(and his charming family).

***
after Gerrit von Honthorst

*"the prettiest man in all England"


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