Country Life April 8 2015

This week in Country Life we visit Stratfield Saye, the magnificent Hampshire seat of the Duke of Wellington, we revel in the beauty of cherry blossom, we celebrate the razor-edged genius of caricaturist James Gillray, we reveal how to survive the election and we learn to cook with artichokes.

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