Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Miss Annabel Kiki • Annabel is an international amputee footballer and won the Golden Boot playing for England at the 2024 Women’s Amputee World Cup in Baranquilla, Colombia. A youth ambassador for Dame Rachel de Souza, she is the daughter of Sally and Nikki Remmer of Cannock, Staffordshire.

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Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Niccy Hallifax

Country-house treasures

Fit for a queen • A state bed commissioned to receive Queen Victoria at Arundel Castle has just undergone a transformative restoration, as Annabel Westman explains

The legacy • Lord Burghley and Burghley Horse Trials

All the King’s horses • Home to carriages, coachmen and craftspeople, Buckingham Palace’s Royal Mews is a village in the heart of London. Matthew Dennison takes a look behind the stable doors of this great institution as it marks its 200th birthday

You’d bletter believe it • Once one of Britain’s most fashionable delicacies, the medlar fell from favour in the 20th century. Fabled and sweetly flavourful, it deserves to make a return to our gardens and kitchens, says Jane Steward

From rugs to riches • Making the best use of fabric scraps, rag rugs may have been born of exigency, but the creativity behind their intricately woven designs knows no bounds, discovers Matthew Dennison

Take a bow • Inspired by the famously beribboned Marie Antoinette, the subject of an exhibition at the V&A Museum from September 20, Hetty Lintell celebrates beautiful bows

When in foam • Elegant baths, tiles and accessories, selected by Amelia Thorpe

It all happens in Yorkshire • Two great houses, rich with fascinating history and beautifully apportioned, put the county on the map

Good vibrations • It might be due to the popularity of Clarkson’s Farm, an increased concern for food provenance or the desire to have a lifestyle overhaul, but interest in smallholdings is on the rise, says Arabella Youens

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

Need to know

Cultural digest • Some of the city’s finest restaurants are found inside museums. COUNTRY LIFE writers round up the very best

Memories are made of this • The walled garden at Salthrop hums with life and colour–it’s hard to believe that this was merely a field not so long ago, writes Tiffany Daneff

Rare fruits

Kitchen garden cook Figs

Ac-cep-t no imitations • Blessed with a vastly superior taste, penny buns are the champions of champignons and the perfect accompaniment to maggots, finds John Wright

Winter sun

Home and dry • The 14-island archipelago of Islas Secas, once deemed uninhabitable for humans, is now a breathtaking, private island hideaway, says Mark Hedges

Ski news

Can you keep a secret? • Rosie Paterson journeys to Soneva Secret, a new resort in a remote part of the Maldives, which is proving that size rarely correlates to ambition

Ancora Cortina, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy

A tale of two gods

A brush with...