Country Life 13 April 2022
Country Life 13 April 2022 is our Easter special issue.


The Editor’s Easter quiz: Can you identify all the native creatures and their young?.
Down the rabbit hole: Many things to many people, the tasty bunny has hidden depths, reveals John Lewis-Stempel.
A land of milk and cheddar: From cider to cheese, floods: to flour, Somerset is one of our richest counties, believe Fanny Charles and Gay Pirrie-Weir.
He was of his time: Andrew Green salutes Ralph Vaughan Williams, far more than solely a pastoral composer.
Rana Begum’s favourite painting: The artist chooses an alluring and tactile contemporary work.
Paradise in the Garden: of England: Fiona Reynolds follows in the footsteps of Chaucer and finds all is not lost of the land he knew.
Masterpiece: Jack Watkins turns his attention to the map that launched the Ordnance Survey we know today.
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Crusading spirit: High on an open escarpment: in North Yorkshire stands the Bunting War Memorial Chapel. John Goodall tells its moving and very personal story.
The secret appeal: of scurvy grass: Sea kale may not be pretty or plentiful, but it’s worth searching the shore or forcing under terra-: cotta, says Tom Parker Bowles.
The good stuff: Hetty Lintell on the sunny side.
Interiors: Cheer up your tables with the latest and brightest designs.
A colour symphony: Flamingos and flowers abound in the garden of Coton Manor, Northamptonshire, where the planting strikes just the right note, finds Tiffany Daneff.
He lived ‘not like a painter, but like a prince’: Susan Jenkins delves into the stellar career of the ‘divine Raphael’, a paragon of painting.
Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by HRH The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
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380 acres and 90 bedrooms on the £25m private island being sold by one of Britain's top music producers
Stormzy, Rihanna and the Rolling Stones are just a part of the story at Osea Island, a dot on the map in the seas off Essex.
By Lotte Brundle
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'A delicious chance to step back in time and bask in the best of Britain': An insider's guide to The Season
Here's how to navigate this summer's top events in style, from those who know best.
By Madeleine Silver