The Princess Royal’s lifelong expertise with horses was sealed with the top award at 1971’s European Eventing Championship, the same year she became the first member of the Royal Family to scoop the B

A new catalogue in four volumes explores the extraordinary riches of the sculpture in the Royal Collection. Its author, Sir Jonathan Marsden , selects 10 favourite works that reflect the diversity of this astonishing collection

Collecting fields often have holy grails, and in medieval illuminated manuscripts one is the Roman d’Alexandre or Romance of Alexander. The 20cm-tall book, written in Old French and illustrated with 1

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THE YEAR OF THE HORSE HAS INSPIRED SOME OF THE WORLD’S FINEST WATCHMAKERS, WITH EXQUISITE EQUESTRIAN DESIGNS, ENGRAVINGS AND MINIATURE PAINTINGS, FINDS KATE YOUDE