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The 2026 Country Life Easter Quiz: Chocolate eggs, country music and Handel versus Lloyd-Webber versus Monty Python
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'Sorry, I can't reply to your email right now, I'm drifting a McLaren in Finland'
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Six Thames-side homes where you can watch the Boat Race without even getting out of your pyjamas
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Where to find the Easter eggs hidden inside this week's issue of Country Life
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Country-house treasures: Crafting a claim at Great Chalfield Manor
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Country-house treasures: Crafting a claim at Great Chalfield Manor
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The risk of taxing our built heritage out of existence is all too real
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Breamore House: The Tudor masterpiece with a past tainted by tragedy
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Crestwood Hills: American suburbia need not have been the isolating experience it sometimes was
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Sir John Vanbrugh, Castle Howard and great houses on fire, with Dr John Goodall
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Why does the discovery of ‘Port Talbot’s Pompeii’ matter?
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Castle Howard was devastated by fire. Against all the odds, its decades-long restoration has made it even greater today than it once was
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The craft renaissance, with Giles Kime
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The Country Life Top 100 architects, interior designers, garden designers, landscape designers and country house specialists in Britain
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The garden at Cogshall Grange: 'A modern work of art, combining shapeliness and serenity'
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Ancient time-telling devices — turned garden ornaments — from the Country Life Archive
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'Sorry, I can't reply to your email right now, I'm drifting a McLaren in Finland'
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From Bentley dog baskets to Ferrari everything, there is more to cars than just four wheels
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'One drew a longer queue than the members of One Direction': The irresistible old English sheepdog is now under threat
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Glovebox: What do you get the person who has everything? A Land Rover Defender inspired by The Hamptons
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'I’m in awe of him. He’s very special. I’m just in the shadows of what Attlee does': A brief guide to the working cats of Britain
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What is everyone talking about this week: Where have all the rabbits gone?
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ART & CULTURE
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A glass act: This centuries-old craft is alive and well
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'First, all the Georgian silver goes, and then all that furniture. Then, the Canalettos go': The anatomy of a country-house sale
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Alphonse Mucha: The Czech artist who went from penurious obscurity to foundational figure of Art Nouveau movement
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A distinguished copy of 'Salvator Mundi' is now on offer — could it also be the truest to Leonardo da Vinci's vision?
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Eliamos review: A five-star retreat on the island made famous by Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
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The stylish surf shacks from which to explore Cornwall’s wild and ancient coastline
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'If it is going to work anywhere, it is going to work here': Meet the makers of English olive oil
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The countdown to Spud-ageddon is on: Why potato farmers are in peril
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Country Life picks the biggest, boldest and best of this year’s clutch of luxury Easter eggs
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The glory — and the grind — of winning a Michelin star, by Gordon Ramsay, Michel Roux Jnr and Tom Parker Bowles
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Tom Parker Bowles: Welsh rarebit is the pinnacle, the apex, the triumphant apogee of this particular form
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