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- December 15th
- ‘I gave her full access to our archives. We never offer that’: The historic Tiffany jewellery that gave life to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein
- Make a splash with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, December 15, 2025
- An immaculate old rectory for sale in 'the loveliest market town in North Yorkshire'
- 'Real children like it… I think it frightens some adults, but very few children': 75 years of The Chronicles of Narnia
- Mystifying Christmas present suggestions that once appeared in the pages of Country Life
- What is everyone talking about this week: Would you move to Dubai?
- December 14th
- To celebrate 100 years of the Rolls-Royce Phantom, we took it back to its roots
- The 12 dogs of Christmas
- 18 beautiful house for sale, from home counties dream to a private island with its own castle, as seen in Country Life
- What the Country Life team are asking Father Christmas for this year
- A fate worse than demolition? The desecration of the original Bank of England, one of Georgian architecture's great masterpieces
- December 13th
- On the edge of the world, beyond the mainland's most remote village, this self-sufficient dream home is for sale at £395,000
- East London's salmon smokehouse is full of secrets
- Power, prestige and passion: Where to see more than 100 of the world’s best dynastic jewels
- Dragonflies, flowers, dogs and lobsters: The 17th century nature brought back to life by the paintings of Alexander Marshal
- December 12th
- The Delightful Dozen: Country Life Quiz of the Day, December 12, 2025
- What do you get a man who already has everything?
- 'It’s there in our bones, and in our bone marrow': Tom Parker Bowles on borscht, the national dish inspiring Ukraine
- 'We’re in the golden era of family life': The rather lovely accidental up-side of the wildly spiralling cost of housing
- How to create spectacular arrangements for your Christmas table
- December 11th
- A picture-perfect home that's so Country Life it even has an Aga in the gym
- The Houses of Parliament, pig-like marine mammals and medieval battles. It's the Country Life Quiz of the Day, December 11, 2025
- The accidental Impressionist who captures country life on canvas
- John Goodall: Restoration is 'an act of recycling', but we need a system that encourages it
- Property with potential: Renovation projects for sale, starting from just £170,000
- From five-figure sensations to fashion-forward timepieces, there’s a watch for everyone this Christmas, says Country Life’s expert
- December 10th
- Doubles all round! It's the Country Life Quiz of the Day, December 10, 2025
- ‘I have an obsession with having a good time’: Fred Siriex on his newfound love of gardening, moving to the UK and his consuming passions
- 170 years ago, a river of excrement ran through the centre of London, spreading stench, disease and death. The engineer and architect who cleaned it up deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Christopher Wren
- ‘Not to move at all is deeply slutty, in the old-fashioned sense of the word’: A snob’s guide to surviving Christmas Day
- A lifelong Londoner on how to beat the throngs and make the most of the city this Christmas
- December 9th
- A medieval home with 600 years of history that was once home to a king, set in one of Kent's most fascinating villages
- Imagine all the answers to the Country Life Quiz of the Day, December 9, 2025
- The King, The Queen, David Beckham and me: Paula Minchin on Country Life's best guest edits
- Country Life December 10, 2025
- ‘You get to a point where you do not fancy sleeping alone and dogs have far better manners than men’: Do dogs belong on our beds?
- A magnificent old vicarage with five bedrooms, 5,000sq ft of space, and in the catchment area for the 'best state school in North Yorkshire'
- Is December the best month for bird watching? Exploring the underrated avian delights of a British winter
- December 8th
- You can't sit with us unless you do the Country Life Quiz of the Day, December 8, 2025
- When Chelsea was grazing and pasture, not gazing and posture, this house was a Georgian dairy. Now it's a townhouse on SW3's swishest street
- Four festive recipes from the Country Life Archive that have (thankfully) fallen out of favour
- What is everyone talking about this week: (Whisper it) is smoking back?
- December 7th
- McLaren Special Operations — The secret Surrey skunkworks producing Britain's most bespoke supercars
- 18 country houses across Britain, from £400,000 to £4 million, as seen in Country Life
- The greatest flowers make the greatest art
- The Castle Howard Mausoleum, a building so beautiful 'you'd almost want to be alive when buried in it', is facing its own demise
- December 6th
- Can you buy happiness? The latest list of Britain's happiest places, and what you could end up with if you moved there
- Is the British Museum's attempt to save a Tudor-era pendant with links to Henry VIII proof that the institution is on the up?
- Suit yourself: I’m a 49 year-old man-about-town and I’ve never owned a suit
- 'The ugliness and craziness is a part of its charm': The Country Life guide to Bangkok
- There are a billion microbes in a teaspoon of soil. Leaving the leaves to Nature feeds and nourishes them
- December 5th
- Child stars, Prince and nursery rhymes: It's the Country Life Quiz of the Day, December 5, 2025
- ‘Calf’s brains have a bland, gentle richness that soothes and cossets': Tom Parker Bowles on the joys of eating offal
- The wave of downsizing about to hit the property market in the UK
- Meet the British perfumers squeezing landscapes into scents
- December 4th
- December 3rd
- It'd be crazy to buy this 500-year-old farmhouse just because of its utterly gorgeous Aga — so thank goodness that the rest of this place is also really nice
- What is a boilie and what does it do? Discover this and other useful knowledge in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, December 3, 2025
- The Surrey hotel review: The new kid on New York's Upper East Side
- Sweet civilisation: What do you get when you ask architects to compete in a gingerbread competition?
- Sophia Money-Coutts: A snob's guide to meeting your in-laws for the first time
- Farmers of Britain, go forth and grow prawns
- December 2nd
- 'A masterpiece of timeless elegance' for sale on the charmed Surrey estate once owned by Henry VIII and the Guinness family
- This machine is what happens when the Rolls-Royce of motorbikes and the most innovative of watchmakers join forces
- Country Life December 3, 2025
- A grand hall in Yorkshire with 400 years of history
- ‘Each one is different depending on what mood I’m in, how I'm feeling and how my energy is’ — meet the carver behind Westminster Hall's angel statues
- December 1st
- Why don't more of us live in brightly coloured homes?
- If chess is 'the supreme board game', then it deserves to be played on boards like these
- I was Jeremy Hunt’s main political adviser and helped put together multiple Autumn Statements and Budgets. This is what I think Rachel Reeves’s Budget means for the countryside
- This Grade I Essex home was renovated by a Guinness and a notorious American diarist and photographed by Country Life — now it's a firm favourite with the fashion set
- What is everyone talking about this week: Thanks to modern-day technology, people were far happier in the days when Nero was setting Rome ablaze
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