Features Archive | July 2026

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July 11th
- Life's a beach — especially if you live in one of these epic homes by the sea
- The best antique dealers across the country, as chosen by Britain's top interior designers, architects and garden designers
- Gyles Brandreth: ‘Who would play me in a film of my life? Kermit the frog’
- The Terrace Rooms & Wine review: The boutique bolthole in Britain's Amalfi, run by one of the UK's top sommeliers
- Generations of owners at Fonthill destroyed the house and neglected the gardens — today, they're simply perfect
July 10th
- The Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 10, 2026 is a real gem
- The Art of Effortlessness: Code8 Beauty Finds the Modern Woman's Cheat Code
- Meet the Sherlock Holmeses of the jewellery world: 'Someone requested a Cartier bangle owned by the Duchess of Windsor. I knew where it was'
- Ten super-commuter villages where you can enjoy lashings of rural life less than an hour from London
- 'This is a Mozart, not a Beethoven vintage': Why 2025 might be the best Bordeaux in decades
- There is more to Lady Jane Grey — our shortest reigning monarch — than this, the most famous painting of her
- Reader event: Advance to Mayfair with London Square
July 9th
- Live in the house where A. A. Milne created Winnie-the-Pooh, and where a Rolling Stones superstar met his tragic end
- Find yourself, understand the world and take the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 9, 2026
- How Frida Kahlo’s life and image have become a global phenomenon — and what her self portraits really say about her
- 'I thought I had taken pretentiousness to a new level, but actually it has gone down well': The magical gardens at Broadwoodside, full of the humour of their irrepressible creators
- The country house experts with cast-iron reputations and genuine talent — as nominated by their peers
- The greatest craftspeople in Britain, as chosen by the nation's best interior designers, architects and country house experts
- An idyllic country estate set in a South Downs landscape of cliffs, villages and chalk figures hewn into the hillsides
July 8th
- Why a watch should be anything but round
- Let the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 8, 2026 get you up to speed
- One of the great treasures of Highclere shows 'Nature set into marble, frozen and made eternal'
- In Victorian England, to flex on your friends was to serve them swan-shaped ice cream
July 7th
- A country house built on the site of an ancient Sussex castle, where the 900-year-old walls are still standing
- Who let the dogs out? We did, in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 7, 2026
- Giles Kime: 'Never let anyone persuade you that this rural reductivism is simple'
- Country Life July 8, 2026
- Smart, stylish, subtle, Swedish: The Volvo EX60 makes the practical chic
- A converted pilchard cellar for sale at £1.295 million (but don't worry, it's much nicer than that makes it sound)
- The intimate letters 'full of nerdy detail' that Tolkien shared with his most devoted fan
July 6th
- It's coming home in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 6, 2026
- Darkness, meet light: A striking Victorian home for sale in London's most charmingly-named suburb
- These are a few of Sarah Corbett-Winder's favourite things
- Felled by a pair of cursed shoes — the butterfly-shaped house that Lutyens built
- What everyone is talking about this week: MAGA (Make Airports Great Again)
July 5th
- 'We haven’t flipped yet, but we’ve been close': Making waves on Lake Como with Will Smith and Star Wars-style electric boats
- Adored by Princess Margaret and Alfred Hitchcock — the rare Welsh terrier breed saved from extinction by Country Life
- Five charming rural retreats, from Kent to Herefordshire, as seen in Country Life
- When is a weed not a weed? When it's a wildflower
- Warwick Castle: The 700-year story of one of the world's great strongholds
July 4th
- A 500-year-old house that sits on 183 acres of one of the most sought-after peninsulas in Cornwall, with a mile of coast all to itself
- 'I know that Serena Williams doesn’t like him': Meet the people, dogs and harris hawk that really rule Wimbledon
- ‘I see a snail, and I feel no animosity towards it. I'm perfectly happy for it to continue being a snail without being on my plate’: George the Poet’s Consuming Passions
- A billionaire's walled garden amid the most undisturbed and beautiful countryside in the west country
- There’s more to Palm Beach in the USA than presidents and palatial pads — it’s the capital of fun
July 3rd
- 250 years? That's nothing. Here are five beautiful American homes that are older than the USA itself
- USA 250: Land of the free, home of the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 3, 2026
- Steven King: My time with the world’s greatest jeweller you’ve never heard of
- What if we could all grow our own produce from the comfort of our living rooms
- Trackside at Silverstone? Your own rally stage? Seven magnificent homes for those who feel the need for speed
- If the Unloved Birds’ Club has an apex predator in its midst, then it is surely the white-tailed eagle
July 2nd
- The 'British Alcatraz' didn't become a prison — it was turned into a unique private island bolthole, and now it's up for sale
- How well do you know your crisp brands? It's harder than you think in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 2, 2026
- This painting sums up The War of Independence's effect on our shores
- The most demanding, delicious pelargoniums, from the variety that likes it drier than a Martini, to the flower with peppermint-scented leaves 'as soft as mouse fur'
- 'One of the finest manor houses to come to the market in recent years', in a Dorset village that's been inhabited for 2,500 years
- What has the USA ever done for us? Quite a lot, as it turns out
July 1st
- In The Dogh0use: Would you pay extra to build your own luxury watch?
- From July and Jools to Jewels, Jules and Julian — the ultimate July questions in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 1, 2026
- ‘Your brain switches off in a way it doesn’t necessarily when you’re staying in the nicest suite at Claridge’s’: Why we’ve all got cabin fever
- 'A corner of the USA that is forever Putney': Charleston is a masterpiece of urban give and take
- Avoid flaccid lettuce, gently-rotting cucumber and shiny processed ham with Tom Parker Bowles's guide to the perfect salad
- Knight Frank's experts on why, where and what to buy in the Cotswolds
- Happily-ever-after treasures created by Cece Jewellery