Country Life

2010–22 Notebook

HERE to start with the past 12 years, as we bring this homage to 125 years of COUNTRY LIFE to a close? So much has changed since 2010. New, ominous words have hammered themselves into the national lexicon: coronavirus, sustainability and Brexit being three of the strongest contenders for how this era will be viewed another 125 years down the line. There have been six Prime Ministers—three in the past six months alone—but the saddest, most poignant national departures were those of the Duke of Edinburgh in 2021, aged 99, and Elizabeth II

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