This enchanting image of the Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth in August 1932 is part of ‘Royal Childhood’, a special summer exhibition opening on Saturday, July 26, in the State Rooms of Buckingham Palace, London SW1 (until September 28, 020–7766 7300;
www.royalcollection.org.uk). The exhibition spans 250 years in the lives of smaller members of the Royal Family and contains much previously unseen material, including outfits, toys and film footage.
* This article was first published in Country Life Magazine on July 23 2014
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Tim Burton is selling the house he shared with Helena Bonham-Carter, a sublime home on the Thames that comes with three private islandsMill House in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, might just be the perfect English country home.
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Puffins and shearwaters, skuas and terns, gannets and gulls and guillemots and wings, these are a few of our favourite things (seabirds)From a heroic long-distance swimmer to a producer of spectacularly eerie sound effects, the seabirds seen swooping and diving over British waters have all manner of singular skills.
