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Eve Myles: ‘You wouldn't believe how many Emily Blunt pictures get sent to me to sign’The Torchwood actor on meeting Linda Hamilton, being the 'best-kep secret in Wales', the book that inspired her to get into acting — and her consuming passions.
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Pamela Goodman: In the battle of the beauties, Mona Lisa will always come out on topOur monthly travel columnist and her family struggle to agree on whether Mona Lisa is a beauty for the ages or a plain Jane.
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A right royal affair with the starsScientific curiosity with the cosmos gripped the Royal Family for centuries, as Matthew Dennison reveals
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These are a few of James Middleton's favourite thingsThe Princess of Wales's brother reveals the three things he holds dear to his heart. Illustrations by Ollie Maxwell.
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Thomas Gainsborough means one thing in Britain. He means another in AmericaGilded Age industrialists were mad for the quintessentially English artist. A new exhibition at The Frick in New York City, focused on fashion in his portraiture, sets the stage for a revival.
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Sir Antony Gormley: Why I am continually captivated by Adriaen de Vries’s radical sculpture Antiope and TheseusSir Antony Gormley writes about why Adriaen de Vries’s sculpture may look vastly different from his own, 'Reflect', but still shares with it a fascination with balance and instability.
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'A blue-blood background and a drive to disrupt': Lady Violet Manners on the importance of preserving Britain's privately-owned country homesThe Viscountess talks about a childhood at Belvoir Castle, primogeniture and why Americans love a British country home.
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'My husband gave me a pendant full of melted snow from the top of Everest': Bridgerton's Julia Quinn on romantic gestures and her consuming passionsThe author on series four of the Netflix smash hit, why she feels the need to speak out about America’s politics and meeting Dame Jilly Cooper.
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'It’s come to my attention that standards are slipping': Sophia Money-Coutts on how to behave at the theatreOur weekly columnist is calling out badly-behaved theatre goers.
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Justine Picardie: Fashion, spies and Elizabeth II's wardrobe, from timeless tweeds to a pair of MarigoldsJustine Picardie joins the Country Life Podcast.
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Write side up: The enduring influence of literature in artThe most sensual pictures of women sprang from Ovid's verses, the Aeneid gave Turner his longest-lasting subject matter and Edward Burne-Jones saw himself in Arthur's deathless slumber.
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The only thing better than a stately home is a stately home in wooden miniatureMeet George Barham — the gifted woodcarver who can turn your family pile into a wooden masterpiece.
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The life of a BAFTA begins on an industrial estate in BraintreeLotte Brundle travels to Essex to visit the family-owned foundry that makes the UK's most iconic award.
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'I do write in and say they should have more about farming': Zandra Rhodes on The Archers, getting arrested and making clothes for Freddie MercuryLotte Brundle meets the 85-year-old fashion designer in her vibrant apartment above the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
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Pushing back against a culture of disposability: The enduring importance of craftCorrine Julius grapples with a world dominated by mass production, digital life, AI and explains why the unique and the tangible is spearheading a renaissance.
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The real rock stars: Meet the makers of the Olympic curling stonesOne of the most remarkable players in the Winter Olympics, Kays Scotland’s curling stones are both objets d’art and serious bits of sporting kit
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Amanda Seyfried's new film answers the question: Where did the viral Instagram Shaker kitchen come from — and how is it linked to Quakerism?'The Testament of Ann Lee' follows the founder of Shakerism. But how did a devotional sect come to influence a major kitchen interior design trend?
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Athena: Stoke-on-Trent is a bellwether for our cultural and industrial legacyA new report highlights the opportunities available in this once proud pottery city, but is there the financial and democratic will to do anything about it?
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These are a few of James Haskell's favourite thingsThe former rugby forward talks to Hetty Lintell. Illustrations by by Ollie Maxwell.
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'Short beards can be extremely becoming on a man (see: The Prince of Wales), but they can carry more bacteria than a dog’s fur': A snob's guide to facial hairOur weekly columnist, Sophia Money-Coutts, dives head-first into the hairy world of men's beards, moustaches and more.
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'He allowed lion and a tiger to prowl around the castle and, if an unfortunate servant was mauled, they were paid compensation': Exotic animals in artExotic animals — whether dreamy-eyed rhinos, improbable flocks of birds from different latitudes or muscular big cats rendered in exact detail — captured the eye of artists in Europe, but also in their native countries.
