Country Life 25 May 2022
Country Life 25 May 2022 Is our very special issue commemorating Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Here’s what you’ll find inside.


For Queen and country (life)
Past covers with a royal flavour
Long to reign over us
John Goodall unravels the history of our National Anthem
Capturing the royal gaze
Charlotte Mullins tells the stories behind portraits of The Queen
A royal face for the future
Architects reveal imaginative redesigns of the Buckingham Palace façade to John Goodall
To honour our Queen
Octavia Pollock visits the Household Cavalry amid its busiest year
Masterpiece
Jack Watkins on a car fit for The Queen: the Rolls-Royce Phantom
Transporting splendour
Royal Yacht Britannia offers an insight into true royal taste, discovers John Goodall
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Streets ahead
Emma Hughes and eminent foodies offer their recipes for perfectly joyous street parties
Where classic style reigns
Thoughtful and stylish, The Queen’s clothes always convey a meaning, says Justine Picardie
In the name of The Queen
Carla Passino on royal namesakes
Fit for a monarch
Rare platinum is worth the trouble, avers Sarah Royce-Greensill, who picks the best platinum products
The name of the rose
Steven Desmond on royal plants
‘It was spinetingling’
Coronation choristers recall the day vividly, finds Andrew Green
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones’s favourite painting
The Black Farmer chooses a powerful paean to motherhood
Luxury
Tiaras, brooches and Ascot chef Simon Rogan’s favourite things
Interiors
New meets old and elegant chairs
Kitchen garden cook
Melanie Johnson creates tasty treats with fresh strawberries
Rose gold
The romantic rose meadow of Easton Hall Walled Gardens, Lincolnshire, enchants Val Bourne
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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If heaven is on earth, it might be in this home with a converted chapel that is now a swimming pool
5 Wood Barton Town House is part of an exclusive 80-acre development in Devon that also comes with fishing rights on the River Avon and four bedrooms.
By James Fisher Published
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An Italian-inspired recipe for lemon-butter pasta shells with spring greens, ricotta and pangrattato
Spring greens are just about to come into their own, so our Kitchen Garden columnist reveals exactly what to do with them.
By Melanie Johnson Published