A Polish King lost in Scotland
May 29 2012

Picture: BBC/Your Paintings/University of Edinburgh
A sharp-eyed reader has spotted this '17th Century Portuguese Nobleman' in the collection of the University of Edinburgh, and cunningly revealed him to be King Sigismund III of Poland.

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