This week in Country Life we admire wonderful winter gardens and reveal how landscape levels can reinforce a look or garden mood, we remember how Country Life fought to save Britain’s agriculture during and after the First World War, we feel the force of the howling, screaming wind and we get the pressure cooker out in the kitchen.
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Fit for a queen: The story of Queen Victoria's state bed at Arundel CastleA state bed commissioned to receive Queen Victoria at Arundel Castle has just undergone a transformative restoration, as Annabel Westman explains. Photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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A billionaire's thatched cottage is for sale in Surrey, once owned by the oil magnate J. Paul GettyChestnut Cottage is a joyous little home — albeit one with the most unusual bedrooms to acreage to price balances we've ever seen. Toby Keel takes a look inside.
