A seat of science

Arundel Castle, West Sussex

Home to a marquess and an RAF air crew – and believed to be the birthplace of a Queen – this red-brick Jacobean mansion contains stories spanning centuries

Home to carriages, coachmen and craftspeople, Buckingham Palace’s Royal Mews is a village in the heart of London. Matthew Dennison takes a look behind the stable doors of this great institution as it marks its 200th birthday

Glamis Castle, Angus, part 2 The seat of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

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

Marble Hill, Richmond-upon-Thames, Greater London In the care of English Heritage