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On His Majesty's Not-So Secret Service: Aston Martin receives Royal Warrant from The King
On His Majesty's not particularly secret service.
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Terrifying or tremendous? Spend a night at the National Gallery beneath some of the world’s most famous artworks
Bacchus, his girlfriend Ariadne, Fighting Temeraire and a few sunflowers seek roommate for one night only. No smokers or pets. Rent free.
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Defender OCTA: Land Rover's classic car, reimagined. And then reimagined again, with 626BHP
Why did Land Rover stick a 4.4 litre twin-turbo V8 in a Defender? Because why not.
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You've got mail: Royal Mail unveils eight folklore-inspired stamps
The Loch Ness monster is among Britain's mythical beings that appear on the stamps.
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Five takeaways from Watches and Wonders Geneva 2025
Country Life’s Luxury Editor, and our eyes and ears on the Geneva ground, reports back from the watch industry’s biggest event of the year.
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‘To grasp the momentousness of the reopening, one must understand the place The Frick holds in the hearts of New Yorkers’: Inside the splendour of Fifth Avenue’s beloved gallery
The beloved NYC art museum’s ‘renovation and enhancement project’ manages to both assure and astonish.
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A remarkable $100 million numismatic collection reappears after being buried for more than 50 years
A collector hid his treasure from the Nazis, his widow kept it secret for decades, but now Roman aurei, Greek staters and British pounds so rare that some have never been sold at public auction have resurfaced and will go under the hammer.
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The V&A and Burberry announce landmark Fashion Gallery makeover
The V&A is renovating one of its largest and most-visited spaces — with support from British fashion house Burberry.
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The century-old enamelling technique used to create Van Cleef's lucky ladybird brooch — which has something in common with Country Life
The technique used in the jeweller's Geneva workshop has been put to good use in its latest creation.
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Jaecoo 7 SHS: Can you really get a luxury SUV for £35,000?
The Chinese automaker Jaecoo lands on UK shores with the 7. We take it for a spin around Scotland and the north of England to see if the hype is real.
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Love, sex and death: Our near-universal obsession with the rose
No flower is more entwined with myth, religion, politics and the human form than the humble rose — and now there's a new coffee table book celebrating them in all of their glory.
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Seeing you seeing me: How British artists portrayed each other in the 20th and 21st centuries
The 'Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists' exhibitions comprises paintings, prints, drawings, photography, sculpture and installation spanning 125 years.
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'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
'Delusions of Grandeur' at the Wallace Collection coincides with a selling exhibition of photography.
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How Cartier became ‘the jeweller of kings and the king of jewellers’
In the early 20th century, Cartier creations adorned everyone from monarchs and superstar actresses, to American ‘Dollar Princesses’. A blockbuster exhibition at the V&A, featuring more than 350 objects, plans to chart the maison's legacy.
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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
In the space of a month, Breitling has signed Austin Butler as a brand ambassador, launched a new collection and snapped up a dormant brand.
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The 30-carat aquamarine pendant smuggled out of Russia and recently attributed to Fabergé that sold for £35,000 — three times its estimate
The ribbon-bow surmount is synonymous with the Russian jewellery houses.
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Go Dutch: Understanding the Duke of Wellington’s passion for Dutch art and how to view his collection
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington was a terrible Prime Minister, but made up for it by being a sophisticated collector.
