My favourite painting turi king

With so many medals to fit in the tiniest miniature she had ever worked on, limner Elizabeth Meek literally had to hold her breath when painting the portrait of Charles III, but the result is a resounding success

I was at Buckingham Palace recently for a rather lovely art exhibition. I’ve been on tour plenty of times with Charles and Camilla, but I never really appreciated that the King employs an artist to ac

The Rothschild name is famous throughout Europe: a family renowned for banking, vast fortunes, sumptuous houses and philanthropic acts. Recently, Britain lost Rothschild legend, Jacob, 4th Baron Roths

The piece I’d never part with

The mischievous cultural commentator and diarist who changed the way museums think about the past

Portrait of George Frideric Handel by William Hoare