Bucket-list stately homes from around the world you can actually explore
From muscle-bound castles to lavish manor houses, the world is filled with fine stately homes – and many of them happen to be ...
‘Queen Mariana of Austria’: Diego Velázquez’s Monumental Portrait of a Monarch
The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, highlights the painter’s splendid late style in an age when the Spanish royals had ...
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Don’t tell Paddington but someone else just sent King Charles marmalade sandwiches
It feels as dramatic as the ravens leaving the Tower of London – somehow, someone other than Paddington has just sent King ...