Take our Easter issue home and have a great long weekend with Country Life.
Inside:
The Editor’s Country Easter Quiz Can you answer all of our fiendish brain-teasers?
Home Sweet Home: All creatures take as much pride in constructing their houses as we do, observes Simon Lester
Party planning: Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the changing fashions of the perfect bash and Anna Tyzack meets the party planners
George Plumptre takes a tour of the gardens associated with Canterbury Cathedral in Kent
In property: how to dress your house with plants
Simon Swynfen Jervis explores the Roman cabinet at Stourhead, a dazzling trophy of the Grand Tour
Gulls eggs; Vicky Liddell discovers the delights of this delectable egg, gathered in secret and limited by licence
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Fit for a queen: The story of Queen Victoria's state bed at Arundel CastleA state bed commissioned to receive Queen Victoria at Arundel Castle has just undergone a transformative restoration, as Annabel Westman explains. Photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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Debo Mitford on her childhood at Asthall Manor, from Nancy's 'coming out' dance to Unity's peach-pinching waysThe Dowager Duchess of Devonshire looks back on her childhood in the Cotswold idyll of Asthall Manor.
