Fit for a queen

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

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

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

A run-down Victorian vicarage has been reinvigorated with a sophisticated mix of colour, pattern and traditional style, ready to welcome visiting family and friends

Timeless elegance combines with sophisticated minimalism in this period townhouse, skilfully revamped for modern living

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