Features Archive | June 2026

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June 26th
- For sale: A vintage superyacht with history, scandal and whale-skin barstools
- Paws for thought with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 26, 2026
- Monaco's answer to Scotland's NC500 is proof that it's the Riviera’s new culture capital
- Like moths to flames, young American collectors cannot help but gravitate towards antique English furniture
- Drink responsibly, drink English: Rhubarb, gorse, thyme and corn are the new secret ingredients to a successful cocktail
- Bringing the cool to the country: Glorious country homes with air conditioning are vanishingly rare, but they are out there
- What David Hockney said about art was right
- Dream Design
June 25th
- A £16 million 'miniature Kensington Palace' on the Thames in central London that was (probably) designed by Christopher Wren
- The Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 25, 2026, takes a look back at this week's news
- Alan Titchmarsh: The easily overlooked factor that's the difference between a beautiful garden and wasting thousands on plants doomed to die
- The new 2CV shows that the fun of French retro shows no signs of slowing down
- How to design a dining room you actually want to spend time in
- A sprawling Georgian home with a wine cellar so big you could drink a different bottle every day for eight years
- Forget doom scrolling, Art History is the best way for Gen Z to embrace visual culture
June 24th
- The hand-written bibles handed down through centuries, in pride of place in a Welsh country house library
- Take it or leaf it: It's a very green Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 24, 2026
- Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo review: Where else can you swim in a pool designed by one of fashion’s biggest icons?
- 'Culture is fundamental to how we think of ourselves': The head of the Courtauld on The Arts, AI and the impoverishment of the public realm
- The most artfully designed dog kennels — from spaceships to antiques that belonged to French royalty
June 23rd
- Britain's gamebird of choice is more exotic in origin than you might think
- It's time to cool off by taking the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 23, 2026
- From underwear to outerwear: How cinema transformed the fortunes of the humble T-shirt
- Country Life June 24, 2026
- The Victorian housing boom left us with a wealth of beautiful homes. Here are five of the best on the market today
- The Church of Scotland is perpetrating cultural blackmail on us all by threatening to sell St Marnock's
June 22nd
- From a white horse to a concrete house: Five major milestones in English art history
- How much do you know about the month of June? Find out in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 22, 2026
- ‘They’re brilliantly bonkers, but who on earth would build a pier today?’
- A 400-year-old rectory in Somerset with pool, exquisite gardens and its own Bridge of Sighs
- The never-before-seen, 70-year-old photographs of Pugin's Bishop's House that Parliament destroyed to make room for a ring road
- Exams in November, summer in May: a new calendar for our modern climate?
June 21st
- Polestar 3: The speedy Swede that's fun for all the family
- Meet the rare, water-loving Canadian retriever that looks like a fox and surfs like a pro
- Five outstanding country homes across Britain, as seen in Country Life
- What's the difference between Glastonbury and Wilderness? Apart from a posh loo, not much at all
- Doddington Hall: The story of an Elizabethan marvel
June 20th
- One of Britain's greatest mansions is on the market, with 36ft ceilings, 17 bedrooms, 37,000sq ft and gardens landscaped by Capability Brown
- Alan Titchmarsh: ‘Being from Yorkshire is akin to being English with knobs on’
- Forget all about caviar and Champagne, five-star hotels now want you to forage for your own food
- With Nothing Underneath's founder Pip Durell: ‘The Meghan Markle effect? That was crazy’
- 'He arrived with three bunches of flowers and told me to shut my eyes': From curation to creation, the story of the garden at Holme Hale Hall
June 19th
- The Prince of Wales to guest edit Country Life in November
- Shaken or stirred? Let the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 19, 2026, decide
- From fast lane to country lane: The Formula 1 stars who opt for rural living after hanging up their helmets
- At WOW!house, the best of interior design just gets better
- The 'cardinal gem' that cures drunkenness and wards off locusts — and was once as prized as diamonds
- They might eat cheese from a can, but the Americans can barbecue the world's best ribs
- Where to upsize: The best places to move with a growing family
- Sir Tristram Hunt: 'Here is the brilliance, eccentricity, liberty and skill of the English’
June 18th
- A wisteria-clad, 303-year-old house that ticks every single box
- Everything you could ever want to know about tennis on grass in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 18, 2026
- Ian Callum, once designer of Jags, now designer of luxury hotel suite featuring many bits of Jag
- How to make a very new extension feel like part of a very old house
- John Simpson: ‘I’d narrowly escaped execution as a British army spy in republican West Belfast'
June 17th
- Louvain-la-Neuve: What happens when you combine Cosmic Brutalism, high Modernism and the Catholic church
- Plan the perfect art heist by taking the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 17, 2026
- The Vita Sackville-West garden that 'numbed generations of gardeners into a state of hopelessness' has finally been completed, 64 years after her death
- You can ring my (Austrian peace) bell: Why these remarkable structures stand all over the world
- The World Cup of Property: Can England end 60 years of hurt?
- 'I can get the same sort of wellbeing from a glass of wine in the bath': A snob’s guide to pretending you like cold-water swimming
- If England wants to win the World Cup, it should listen to these emperor penguins
June 16th
- Write of way: The landscapes that inspired our greatest literary works
- The price is right in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 16, 2026
- Long before kleptomania, nymphomania, Lisztomania and egomania, there was Egyptomania
- Everyone deserves a break, and that includes the Country Life Podcast
- Country Life June 17, 2026
- The home of a Monty Python superstar, where Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher partied with the Rolling Stones
- Cheerio Churchill, hello hedgehogs: The British animals Country Life wants to see on our banknotes
June 15th
- The Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 15, 2026, gets incredibly meta
- Floella, Baroness Benjamin: ‘66 years ago, this new world felt alien and harsh, but I grew to love the English's eccentricities and peculiarities'
- 'The exhibition reminds you in a very physical way that everything is connected': How Britain’s greatest sculptor engages with the world
- 'It squeezes every drop of drama that can be had from a family house': One of the most beautiful new houses of the 21st century is up for sale
- The pen is mightier than dynamite: A truly unique 20th-century building destroyed by the wrong paperwork
- What is everyone talking about this week: Why Britain's county shows are thriving
June 14th
- 'A little lust for a lot of precision. A little elegance for a lot of intent': The changing face of Ferrari design
- The most famous dog in Scotland is loyal to a fault and was beloved by Queen Victoria — but at risk of being reduced to history books alone
- Six superb rural homes, from a harbourside house to a 1,000-acre property in Dorset, as seen in Country Life
- Amy Merrick: No self-respecting flower-lover would fill their vases with imported stems. We want seasonal British-grown flowers and foliage
- The forgotten titan of Victorian creativity who once stood alongside Pugin, Ruskin and William Morris, and the country church that hints at his legacy
June 13th
- Bagpuss's house is for sale — and it's every bit as magical as you could hope
- Gesamtkunstwerk will revolutionise how you decorate your home — just don't ask us how to pronounce it
- Sally Phillips: ‘I accidentally lived in a brothel’
- Villa San Michele review: This hotel is a reminder of what Florence used to be — a peaceful sanctuary of beauty and inspiration
- 'The garden has run away and found its soul... It’s like being on a horse that’s ever so slightly out of control': Ferne Park's magical journey from dereliction to maturity
June 12th
- A home on the English Riviera with breathtaking views across the sea
- It's sun, sweat and silverware in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 12, 2026
- Sir John Major: ‘For all its frustrations, England is where I wish to live. I feel blessed to be British'
- What do brogues, Barbours, crumpets and foldable bicycles have in common? They’re all the best you can buy — and they’re all English
- 'For a penny, one could buy entry into a new way of thinking: egalitarian, restless and caffeinated' — London's enduring love of coffee
- A country house that has a bit of everything — and which pulls off the hardest trick in property
- These iridescently beautiful birds can slow time, reproduce the human voice and sing like angels — so why have we nicknamed them ‘stinker’ and ‘scootie’?
June 11th
- 'What makes the perfect house? The one that makes you want to embrace its imperfections': Jules Hudson on his first house in the country
- How well do you know your British birds? Find out by taking the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 11, 2026
- Charles Quest-Ritson: The 'Sir David Beckham' rose is so good that one day he'll be better remembered as a flower than a footballer
- Nothing says cool better than a ULEZ-skewering Roller
- ‘Why would anyone paint anything white?’ Step inside Butter Wakefield's colourful west London home
- An ancient home that was moved brick-by-brick and beam-by-beam half way across England
- Athena: Texting in the theatre is always bad manners
- Christiana Kehrer Interiors
June 10th
- 'NIMBYs are heroes of our time': Simon Jenkins launches devastating attack on the state of housing in Britain
- There's toil and trouble in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 10, 2026
- Spring in the step: Strutt & Parker's experts on how to get the most when selling your house
- 'I discovered a way of doing the Monaco Grand Prix in similar style, with a much bigger boat, and an even louder horn': The floating Paddock pass that F1 fans are fighting over
- 'The Art of Living Well Longer': A wellbeing event at KYN Hurlingham
- A snob's guide to the village fête
- Tom Parker Bowles: ‘The English art of the witty put down is unmatched’
June 9th
- From Worzel Gummidge to the kakashi of Shikoku: The scarecrow is iconic the world over
- Tee yourself up for the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 9, 2026
- 'Since then, I have built up a collection of about 200 — the oldest of which dates from about 3000BC': Despite its scarcity and significance, this type of jewellery is among the least expensive
- Country Life June 10, 2026
- A Georgian mill house for sale on the banks of one of the most celebrated stretches of water in Britain
- A T-Rex by the name of Gus is going up for auction — and he could be the most expensive dinosaur ever sold
June 8th
- Dive into the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 8, 2026
- Was there ever a city so densely populated by brilliant minds, so tightly packed with bright ideas? Mark Rothko is following in the footsteps of Michelangelo and taking over Florence
- Choosing the perfect road trip
- A house so beautiful that it entranced Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle — who bought it on the spot
- Star of the show: How George Saumarez Smith's design for Country Life wowed visitors at the Chelsea Flower Show
- Inspired by the past: How Munder Skiles blended old and new for Country Life's stand at the Chelsea Flower Show
- House of the Dragon: The Elizabethan mansion protected by a fire-breathing beast — until it wasn't
- What is everyone talking about this week: How Gen Z fell in love with fly-fishing
June 7th
- John Betjeman, Paul Nash, Christopher Hobhouse and the golden age of British guidebooks
- Hugo Vickers: 'Wallis Simpson enjoyed being the King’s friend, but in no way did she want to become his wife, or to cause a major constitutional crisis'
- Five outstanding homes, from a Cornish harbour home to a townhouse designed by Christopher Wren, as seen in Country Life
- The marine animals that look suspiciously like dogs
- 'The ideal of what an English country house should be': Ven House's journey from Georgian corruption to modern glory
- Reader event: The art of the country house garden at Daylesford
June 6th
- A grand country house saved from rot, rising damp and ruin, on the market after a 34-year labour of love
- Lady Anne Glenconner: ‘Princess Margaret and I were quite naughty then, Elizabeth always had an eye out for us’
- 'It is so impressive in scope it almost defies description': The bold, 200-year vision to repair the harm that man has inflicted on the Scottish Highlands
- Music, dancing and jellied eels all round: The 'colourful world of plenty' in the iconic garden at the Festival of Britain
June 5th
- 'It's extremely reassuring for the ultra-wealthy': How Monaco's resurgence is fuelling a new property boom
- It’s creatures great and small in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 5, 2026
- The real passion of polo is found in its ordinary players
- The death of Gentleman's Relish (and how I learned to stop worrying and make my own instead)
- Five slices of Hampshire heaven on the market
- We rudely refer to them as 'sky rats', but pigeons add a touch of the natural world to our busiest metropolises
June 4th
- A 34-bedroom Cotswolds home for £810,000, a sprawling Victorian mill or a Grand Design waiting to happen? The world of property auctions is going wild
- Test your knowledge of the days of the week in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 4, 2026
- The ancient trees that laugh in the face of climate change and dinosaur-killing asteroids
- Is it worth queueing around the street for a pocket watch? The answer, of course, is yes
- How the sustainably-minded brains behind the London Eye rescued a Warwick Avenue townhouse from the brink of collapse
- The Monaco Royal Family's car collection is exactly the sort of unabashed showmanship you want to see from a prince
- A 500-year-old cottage that's literally two doors down from Jane Austen's house in Hampshire
- Small-scale cut flower growers have now been formally recognised by the government
June 3rd
- Inspired by a Renaissance masterpiece, created by one of the world's great architects, this bed has done a century's service for a country house's owners — and their very lucky pets
- It's all coming up roses in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 3, 2026
- No longer a sunny place for shady people: How Monaco is shedding its old-money image
- 'Do you want to be known as someone who’s simply too uptight to take lunch?' A snob’s guide to midweek dining
- Where to listen to the greatest musical performance on Earth
June 2nd
- How to refresh a room without sacrificing your existing furniture
- Snoozing dormice, British scorpions, vegan hedgehogs and other unusual animal facts in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 2, 2026
- Royalty, racing drivers and the Riviera’s most charming reprobates: Inside Monaco's fabulous parties
- Country Life June 3, 2026
- The Highland getaway of Elizabeth II's personal florist is for sale at £750,000 — and if there's house in Britain with a better view than this one, we'd love to see it
- Few historical figures have sat at such a rich juncture between power, empire and progress than this East London princess
June 1st
- Wine down with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 1, 2026
- Keep calm and carry on because the triumphant return of British landscape painting is here
- ‘I’m not interested in cars — I’m interested in Ferraris’: Inside Rome’s glamorous new concorso
- This landmark Hamptons home, in the most expensive post code in New York, is older than the Declaration of Independence
- The financier, racing driver and prolific party animal who saved — and then lost — one of the 20th century's most notable country houses