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 Katya Churchill • Katya is a lawyer in a London firm, specialising in dispute resolution. She read French at the University of Bristol with a year at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, and holds a Master’s degree in Law. She is the daughter of Sonja Churchill and the late Paul Churchill of Putney, London SW15, and married Oscar Ratcliffe last October at Temple Church, London EC4.

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Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

Sounding the alarm

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Nishat Khan

Hampshire chronicles • Gin, witches, regicide, boats, nudists, an Egyptian curse, Spitfires, the invention of windsurfing and more writers and vineyards than you can shake a fishing rod at: this beloved English county has it all. Here are 13 stories you may never have heard about Hampshire

The legacy Edward Montagu and the National Motor Museum

A room with a view • Jane Austen spent the last days of her life in rented lodgings in Winchester, Hampshire. Adam Rattray describes the remarkable recent discoveries made about the house in which she died

City of legend • Kings, cobbles, secrets, superstition and literary fire power–Winchester has had it all in spades for centuries and is as desirable now as it ever was, says Jason Goodwin

Earn your stripes • Is there a bolder colour combination than red and white for summer? Hetty Lintell thinks not, with her peppy edit for beach and beyond

The designer’s room • The deep-lustre copper brings a period glamour to this kitchen by deVOL

WOW!house talk • On Wednesday, June 25, Giles Kime will ask three leading designers whether a hard-working, practical space can be both useful and beautiful

How to live the dream • Whatever your passion–be it gardening, fishing, sailing, shooting or equestrian sport–you can live the countryside dream in one of these idyllic Hampshire houses

Hampshire hotties • With rolling valleys, serene rivers and architectural character aplenty, what’s not to like about this county?

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

London Life Need to know

Rules are there to be broken • The second coming of the high-low restaurant, where chefs pair martinis with burgers, is here, finds Will Hosie

Shape shifters • When Kim Wilkie sculpted a tiered grass amphitheatre behind this 17th-century house, the garden finally settled into place, as Non Morris discovers

Well worth the trouble

Kitchen garden cook Cherries

The original Spitfire • Size doesn’t matter when it comes to the fighting spirit of the tiny merlin, a fierce parent and favoured hunting accessory of Mary, Queen of Scots

Travel News

New darling on the block • A refurbished palace and two new hotels are helping Madrid to break free from Barcelona’s shadow, says Steven King

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

A song of art and fire • A drawing of a fierce little girl with her hair ablaze caught the imagination of Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, reminding her at once of her daughter and of a small accident from her own childhood,...