In this issue

LONDON LIFE
Charles l’s London by Jack Watkins, Pimlico Village and the actress Elizabeth Tan, plus what’s open now for eating and Arts in the capital.

Walk on Wye
The captivating Wye Valley, beloved of the Romantics, is one of Herefordshire’s bestkept secrets, says local boy John Lewis-Stempel..

A road to remember

London’s premier design district is home to some of the world’s leading interior-design and furnishing shops, but its refined façades belie a bohemian past, finds Carla Passino

3 mins

A RIGHT ROYAL TRAGEDY

Charles I met a sticky end, but his taste for the finer things in life left a lasting impression on London, finds Jack Watkins

3 mins

Beautiful Britain Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Llyn Peninsula

1 min

My favourite painting Simon Gillespie - David with the Head of Goliath by Artemisia Gentileschi

John McEwen comments on David with the Head of Goliath

1 min

Survivors from another age

Two National Trust properties bask in a glorious Indian summer’s day

3 mins

An empire of concrete

The National Trust is getting hung up about the presentation of houses and the British Empire. The real challenge of the moment, argues Simon Jenkins, is the future of our countryside and the assault on the planning system

4 mins

The last royal hall

Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, part I In the care of Historic Royal Palaces In the first of two articles illustrated with specially commissioned photographs of the interior taken at the end of lockdown, John Goodall looks at the remarkable history of Henry VIII’s celebrated great hall at Hampton Court

9 mins

Walk on Wye

Eulogised by Gilpin, Wordsworth and Coleridge and immortalised on canvas by Turner, the sylvan charm of the River Wye Valley is one of Herefordshire’s best kept secrets, says John Lewis-Stempel

5 mins

‘Access to green space should be a right'

The Nature writer on a lost civilisation, HS2 and the stress of having an opinion

4 mins

Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

A suspected spy, Harold Godwinson, William Gladstone and a British Army colonel all have ties to these two Wiltshire homes

5 mins

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