All content Archive | February 2026

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February 15th
- Renault 4: Retro, rewired, and ridiculously likeable
- Five of our favourite dog-friendly hotels — and they've all been approved by Geoffrey the dachshund
- 'He was really the most radical artist of the 19th century': Georges Seurat at the Courtauld Gallery
- 12 wonderful homes, from a Cotswolds mill to a country house within the M25, as seen in Country Life
- 'A fantastic creation, with the magic of a strange, dreamed, longed-for world': Inside Schloss Charlottenhof, the Prussian royal family's exquisite sanctuary
February 14th
- A Georgian lodge tucked away on a 900-acre National Trust estate in one of the most beautiful settings in Pembrokeshire
- ‘I’m like: “Give me those tights, let me show you”: Ballet superstar Carlos Acosta’s consuming passions
- Penns in the Rocks: The East Sussex garden created by Vita Sackville-West, with a little help from the huge boulders that stood here when dinosaurs walked the earth
- ‘Please, for heaven’s sake, not a pear-shaped diamond with a gold band’: Proposal etiquette for the modern man
- Couples are changing how they holiday — even on honeymoon
February 13th
- Part Scottish castle, part French chateau, part Gothic fantasy: The $60 million home in the heart of the wealthiest village in Texas
- Lucky for some? 13's the number in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, February 13, 2026
- Anassa, the 'Queen of the Mediterranean'
- How Coco Chanel's crush on a polo-playing Parisian inspired a revolutionary handbag and fine jewellery line
- The Cotton House review: If you're going to be the only hotel on Mustique, you better be great
- Tom Parker Bowles: 'There is no dish more lusty and full blooded than boeuf à la Bourguignonne'
- I absolutely hated 'Wuthering Heights', but the film sounds like fun — and so now I'm moving to one of these impossibly remote and romantic farmhouses
- The real challenge facing Britain's grande dame seafront hotels
- Love is all around us, just ask the natural world
February 12th
- What have the Romans ever done for us? For one thing, taught us the art of seduction
- Love is in the air, and in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, February 12, 2026
- Glovebox: Gaze upon the glories of the cosmos from the comfort of this Jeep
- How do you add historic character back into a soulless room?
- A 'Sleeping Beauty' house, covered in wisteria and tucked away in ancient woodland, has come up for sale in Sussex
- The W1 set is up in arms about Liz Truss's roof terrace. But what is a members' club without one?
February 11th
- Get ready for some cold hard facts: it’s the Country Life Quiz of the Day, February 11, 2026.
- Is this London’s sexiest hotel room?
- Rolling Stones legend Charlie Watts spent four decades in this idyllic Devon home — and now it's up for sale
- Sophia Money-Coutts: A snob's guide to airport etiquette
- It has been hard to keep track of the cascade of good news about the Arts, so we've done it for you
February 10th
- The life of a BAFTA begins in an industrial estate in Braintree
- It's super! The Country Life Quiz of the Day, February 10, 2026
- 'Heart motifs combine romance, history and craftsmanship in one very intimate object': Jewellery to fall in love with
- This Civil War coat and armour has survived four centuries in almost perfect condition — apart from the hole made by the musket ball that killed the man who wore it
- Country Life February 11, 2026
- The short-eared owl is a breed apart
- Plant trees for pollinators in need with the Woodland Trust
- £1.5 billion might be spent on Arts buildings, but who will be left to run them?
February 9th
- Who is your Wildlife Photographer of the Year? Cast your vote now
- Fall in love again and again with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, February 9, 2026
- A 1980s sitcom superstar is selling his 'just idyllic' Surrey hideaway
- The rugby shirt is a bona fide sartorial superstar
- The magnificent London mansion that Country Life mourned when it was demolished to make room for the Dorchester Hotel
- What is everyone talking about this week: As Valentine's Day beckons, love letters are making a comeback
February 8th
- Every now and then, it's important to remember some Alfa Romeos
- Five superb homes, from a Wiltshire mansion to 'the best flat in Battersea', as seen in Country Life
- 'Uncut Gems' and the mystery of the most significant collection of Tudor and Stuart jewels ever found in London
- Repton: The 500-year-old school with a medieval priory whose story leads back to the kings of Mercia
February 7th
- The Norfolk home of the grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, has come to the market
- 'It’s harder with someone who says yes to everything’: What it's like having a bespoke scent made by one of London's oldest perfumers
- Lodge Park: Megève is where snow and style mingle, and this hotel is at the heart of it all
- ‘I don't consider myself to be a nepo baby at all’: Caroline Avedon on preserving her grandfather's legacy — and her consuming passions
- 'I was utterly bewitched': The heartwarming success story of one of Britain's greatest rose-growers
February 6th
- When is a cottage not a cottage? When it's a spectacular, glass-walled lakehouse making waves in 'Heated Rivalry'
- How well do you really know Country Life? Test your knowledge of your favourite magazine in Quiz of the Day, February 6, 2026
- 'To my unspeakable disgust and pain, the little inconsiderate beast squirted his acid down my throat': The army of animals weaponising chemistry in the fight for survival
- New kids on the block: London's hotel boom and the new openings around the world to have on your radar
- The 'chef's table' is off the ick list
- A picture-perfect thatched cottage tucked away in Dorset's Blackmore Vale
- Cybele and Juno statues finally return to Stowe's south-front portico
February 5th
- The nearest thing you'll find to a tropical lodge in London? This exotic home is right on the Thames, and 10 miles from the centre of the city
- A dangerously delicious Country Life Quiz of the Day, February 5, 2026
- Jenson Button: 'Get rid of your ego'
- It’s out with winter blues and in with the blossoming prunus, unless it happens to be English pottery
- William Robinson, the visionary gardener 150 years ahead of his time
- A Grade II-listed farmhouse just outside the Cornwall village dubbed 'Hollywood-on-Sea', on sale for the first time in 500 years
- 'It’s worth remembering that our closest surroundings often hold multitudes of their own'
February 4th
- Are you a yearner or burner? Find out which Bridgerton leading man you are in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, February 4, 2026
- The cat that 'lives' in the Long Gallery at one of the greatest Elizabethan houses in Britain
- Sophia Money-Coutts: A snob's guide to supermarkets and what to do when there's no Waitrose
- Patrick Galbraith: 'The idea that a bar in Norfolk selling vinho verde would make it through even one winter was about as likely as the Madonna herself reappearing by the old water pump'
February 3rd
- Sweat, struggle, survival: Capturing the endeavour of industry on canvas
- What could be better than National Golden Retriever Day? Only the Country Life Quiz of the Day, February 3, 2026
- These are a few of Diana Henry's favourite things
- Country Life February 4, 2026
- 'They've nourished us, sheltered us, protected us... we owe trees far more than they owe us': Aidan Meighan on the folklore of trees
- A good call: The red telephone box rings in 100 years
- 'We made the mistake of accepting the word of a surveyor. Off we went on a voyage of restoration lasting 30 years': Griff Rhys-Jones on his first house in the country
- Is £1.5 billion enough to save our culture?
February 2nd
- Everyone gets a prize: Test your Awards Season knowledge with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, February 2, 2026
- Agromenes: The Food Waste Inspector is right to call out M&S, Waitrose and Lidl for throwing away food that is perfectly good to eat
- A Georgian home that's the epitome of the country house dream, with four-poster beds, Aga and pool, set in one of Britain's most sought-after spots
- Springing in the rain: The science behind the smells of the seasons
- The striking Arts & Crafts country home with interiors by William Morris that disappeared without a trace
- The world’s heaviest flying bird flaps on to pastures new but remains endangered, says expert
February 1st
- Audi S e-tron GT: Is this the EV that will save us from a dull and silent future?
- The dog that saved Disney and once ran with horses: A spotted history of the Dalmatian
- 17 charming rural hideaways, from under £600,000 to £9.5 million, as seen in Country Life
- 'Attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places': Slim Aarons's photographs of Cortina d’Ampezzo resurface ahead of the Winter Olympics
- 'The Shakespeare of architects... he has yet had no equal in this country': Sir John Vanbrugh and the legacy of Blenheim Palace
- Knight Frank's best places to live for commuters in 2026