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- March 31st
- A well-connected rural playground with 23 acres on the edge of the South Downs National Park
- The UK gets its first ‘European stork village’ — and it's in West Sussex
- The century-old enamelling technique used to create Van Cleef's lucky ladybird brooch — which has something in common with Country Life
- ‘The best sleep in the sky’: What it’s like to fly in United’s Polaris cabin, approved by American icon Martha Stewart
- March 30th
- From California to Cornwall: How surfing became a cornerstone of Cornish culture
- 18 magnificent homes for sale from £550k to £20 million, as seen in Country Life
- Jaecoo 7 SHS: Can you really get a luxury SUV for £35,000?
- Can't you hear me S.O.S? Our treasured native dog breeds are at risk of extinction
- 'There are architects and architects, but only one ARCHITECT': Sir Edwin Lutyens and the wartime Chancellor who helped launch his stellar career
- March 29th
- A converted monastery for sale where the chapel has become the most incredible swimming pool we've seen in years
- An Italian-inspired recipe for lemon-butter pasta shells with spring greens, ricotta and pangrattato
- Curious Questions: What is the greatest April Fool's prank ever played?
- How to disconnect from reality and feel like a new person in under 72 hours
- Evenley Wood Garden: 'I didn't know a daffodil from a daisy! But being middle-aged, ignorant and obstinate, I persisted'
- March 28th
- Love, sex and death: Our near-universal obsession with the rose
- The sounds of spring and stained glass in an Arts-and-Crafts masterpiece in Dorset
- An eight-bedroom wonder in East Sussex where the outdoors are an adventure
- Seeing you seeing me: How British artists portrayed each other in the 20th and 21st centuries
- March 27th
- Chilstone
- Guild Anderson
- Tom Parker Bowles's Tour de Fromage, from creamy Camembert and spicy, pungent Époisses to the 'mighty, swaggering Roqueforts'
- A lakeside farmhouse on the market in the beautiful heart of Pembrokeshire
- An idyllic countryside home that's light, spacious and comes with a Grade II-listed folly
- 'This is the funnest exhibition London has seen in recent memory': Grayson Perry’s new show at the Wallace Collection explores the delusions of a fictitious woman
- Scotland's majestic landscapes meet holistic wellness aboard Belmond and Dior's inaugural train retreat
- March 26th
- A historic villa for sale on the Via Nomentana worthy of Rome's rich history
- How Cartier became ‘the jeweller of kings and the king of jewellers’
- A tub carved from a single block of San Marino marble — and nine more beautiful things for the ultimate bathroom
- Archaeologists in North Yorkshire discover ‘the biggest and most important Iron Age hoard ever found in Britain’
- Eight bedrooms of unlisted Edwardian elegance with sweeping views of Somerset
- March 25th
- Everything you need to know about the stealth red carpet tease and Breitling’s new Top Time B31 watch — as seen on Austin Butler’s wrist
- Country Life 26 March 2025
- The prestigious Saut Hermès was a tantalising taste of what to expect when Paris's Grand Palais reopens to the public in June
- A waterside cottage in Devon with a private quay, idyllic views and the prettiest summerhouse we've seen in years
- Cath Harries — The photographer on a 15-year quest to find the most incredible doors in London
- March 24th
- This elegant Greek villa offers would-be buyers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to live in the shadow of the Acropolis
- Go Dutch: Understanding the Duke of Wellington’s passion for Dutch art and how to view his collection
- One for the pot: Nine of the prettiest vases to gift this Mother's Day, instead of flowers
- The extraordinary Egyptian-style Leeds landmark hoping to become a second British Library — and they used to let sheep graze on the roof
- March 23rd
- Six charming homes up for sale, including one dubbed 'one of the most picturesque in Dorset', as seen in Country Life
- Rolls Royce Ghost Series II: The car of many colours that can do many amazing things
- An expert guide to growing plants from seed
- 'For here is pure noodle nirvana': How to make Tom Parker Bowles's favourite Thai soup
- How sport achieved global domination — and the luxury brands that followed in pursuit of gold
- Art, architecture and plastic bricks at Lego House: 'It's as if the National Gallery set up easels and paints next to the masterpieces and invited you try your hand at creating a Van Gogh'
- March 22nd
- A Buckinghamshire mansion built for the speech therapist who set Churchill on his path to greatness
- Constance Spry, Harry Styles and rescue dogs: Florist and founder of the Wild at Heart Foundation Nikki Tibbles’s consuming passions
- Curious Questions: Why do golf balls have dimples? And why are tennis balls furry?
- A gorgeous home that offers a slice of country life in the heart of Hampstead
- Food with a pinch of salt: The crops we can harvest from the sea
- How to cruise in the wake of Mark Twain on the great Mississippi River of the American South
- March 21st
- The best rhododendron and azalea gardens in Britain
- Inside the £28 million home that sets out to be 'the English country house of the 21st century'
- A 24-carat coin just sold for £20,000 — and the gold came from the same Welsh mine as the Royal Family's wedding rings
- Victor Hugo, France's greatest novelist, was also a talented artist — and now his 'rarely seen' illustrations are on display at the RA
- March 20th
- Gill Meller's recipe for wild garlic pesto
- Great garden getaways
- A blissful and beautifully named home in one of the most exclusive spots in Cornwall
- Philip Treacy, Gucci and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, take centre stage at Chatsworth's latest floral-inspired exhibition
- White-tailed eagles could soon soar free in southern England
- March 19th
- March 18th
- A sleek, seven-bedroom villa with a wine cave, wellness space and a 20-person Jacuzzi
- Let's get physical: The best home gym products to get you moving
- Britain's whale boom and and the predator that's far scarier than a great white shark, with wildlife cinematographer Dan Abbott
- 'We can grow in four acres what would require 800 to 1,000 acres in conventional farming'
- March 17th
- A century ago, one of Britain's greatest architects built a dog kennel in West Sussex — and it turned out so beautifully that today it's a gorgeous four-bedroom home
- ‘It is as real and lasting as any other relationship I know of’: Everything you need to know about Venice in time for the 2025 Biennale Architettura
- Everything you might've missed last week — including the new Aston Martin
- The 30-carat aquamarine pendant smuggled out of Russia and recently attributed to Fabergé that sold for £35,000 — three times its estimate
- March 16th
- 19 completely charming houses for sale across Britain, as seen in Country Life
- 'They are inclined to bite and spray acid to protect territory': Meet the feisty red wood ant
- Honey, I shrunk the Ferrari: How to get your hands on (most) of a 250 Testa Rossa for less than £200,000
- Restoration House: The house in the heart of historic Rochester that housed Charles II and inspired Charles Dickens
- Kendal Mint Cake: The happy accident that fuelled the first ascent of Everest
- Lady Jane Grey: How the Nine Day Queen lost her head, but found her face
- March 15th
- British racing driver and F1 commentator Jamie Chadwick’s consuming passions
- Why do the English constantly say sorry?
- A vanishingly rare chance to own a 'defining example' of a home designed by one of Britain's most influential 20th century architects
- Great Comp: The blissful garden flooded with rhododendrons and azaleas that's just beyond the M25
- The Barnsdale in Rutland: Is this the UK’s most dog-friendly hotel?
- March 14th
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- March 12th
- Strutt & Parker: Property sales gather apace
- Keira Knightley's Black Doves home is up for sale — and it's a beautiful villa in the neighbourhood dubbed 'South London’s answer to Notting Hill'
- Dawn Chorus: Heathrow gives its VIP terminal a facelift and King Charles’s Land Rover Defender comes up for sale
- March 11th
- A sublime Huf Haus in West Sussex with some of the finest gardens in the county
- World-famous Junction Beat on the River Tweed is up for sale for the first time in 50 years
- Historic England acquires 8,000-strong collection of early landscape photographs
- Country Life March 5, 2025
- A $26 million Hollywood mansion that might be Beverly Hills' prettiest
- The timeless elegance of English country house style, with Guy Goodfellow and Steven Rodel
- March 10th
- March 9th
- If the Volvo ES90 is the answer, what is the question?
- Five classic country houses for sale, from an equestrian home to a manor with a wisteria-draped pool, as seen in Country Life
- 1775: The year Britain produced a dazzling generation who changed the world
- The King wants YOU: His Majesty's call-to-arms for under-35s across Britain
- 'A glimpse of the sublime': Inside the drawing room of the 'grandest Palladian house in Ireland'
- March 8th
- A £15m Kensington penthouse with a Mediterranean-style ‘garden in the sky’
- 'I'm the expert who wrote the RHS's guide to roses — here's why pruning them right now is almost certainly a terrible mistake'
- Is L’Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay France’s answer to the very British country house hotel?
- A magnificent, sprawling farmhouse that blends the 16th, 20th and 21st centuries, with double-height music room, a superb pool and a 'Spitfire barn'.
- Forsythia: The spring flower that's a ray of sunshine — and a foolproof option for novice gardeners
- March 7th
- Tetrad's fine furniture: Traditional craft and timeless styles since 1968
- 'We’re still using the garden gates from Far from the Madding Crowd': How homes of all shapes and sizes can become stars of the screen
- Unlock private markets with HVPE
- Mexico, Miss Argentina and north Norfolk: How padel is taking over the world
- His Majesty The King shares the songs ‘which have brought him joy’
- Spike Milligan's old cottage is on the market — and it's just as wacky as the man himself
- Dawn Chorus: A river comes to life, more mews is good mews, and the new 400-mile electric Volvo
- March 6th
- March 5th
- 'Mary Berry has an aversion to a soggy cake bottom and I have one to a flaccid croissant': London's best baked goods by the people in the know
- Sainz alive: F1 driver Carlos Sainz and his father are the new faces of Hackett London
- Sean Symington Interior Design
- Kit Kemp Design Studio
- Dawn Chorus: Meet Farrow & Ball’s new paint colours, shop the must-have hotel merchandise and find out what Tom Parker Bowles likes to order from Greggs
- March 4th
- How to make the 'best pancakes in the universe'
- Country Life 26 February 2025
- Old money, new style: How the high fashion world is bringing Sloane style back
- Hastings Contemporary extols life above and below the waves with two new exhibitions
- A honey-coloured, 300-year-old rectory where every period-house headache has already been solved for you
- The secret lives of the British aristocracy, with Eleanor Doughty
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