Washington’s war tent

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

Arundel Castle, West Sussex

Discover how the UK’s country houses defied the odds to survive as historic monuments and cultural centres

TRAIL'S GEAR, TESTED FOR YOU

Marie Antoinette’s passion for furniture and genius for bagatelles, however evanescent their purpose, filled the French royal palaces with beauty and charm, as Matthew Dennison reveals

Baron von Pfetten