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Famed for her love of horses, Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, is a former European three-day event champion and a strong supporter of Riding for the Disabled. Perhaps, then, it was inevitable that

The world according to…

Michael Bentley recalls Maurice Cowling, the Conservative commentator and historian whose books on a variety of topics influenced thought on the right of the party

Broadcaster and author Clare Balding shares the reads that have been her escape and inspiration

Ian McEwan is strolling through the garden of his Cotswolds manor house. Bees waft drowsily between wildflowers. Plump apples, pears and walnuts bauble the trees. Vibrant cerulean-blue damselflies hov

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers