Features Archive | June 2026

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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
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