The Editor’s Easter Quiz 2015
Are you an egghead or an April Fool?


How much do you really know about the countryside, and more importantly, how avidly do you read Country Life? Test yourself with our Editor's Easter Quiz 2015.
Test your knowledge of the season and start the challenge - click here to being the Country Life Editor's Easter Quiz 2015
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Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
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A billionaire's thatched cottage is for sale in Surrey, once owned by the oil magnate J. Paul Getty
Chestnut Cottage is a joyous little home — albeit one with the most unusual bedrooms to acreage to price balances we've ever seen. Toby Keel takes a look inside.
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Debo Mitford on her childhood at Asthall Manor, from Nancy's 'coming out' dance to Unity's peach-pinching ways
The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire looks back on her childhood in the Cotswold idyll of Asthall Manor.