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EDITOR’S LETTER

Lydia Slater

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• turn to page 110 for this month’s offer.

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Left: Gugu Mbatha-Raw wearing

Dior in this month’s cover story (page

144). Above: Hilary Mantel in

‘Mistress of tales & revels’ (page 208)

final volume, The Mirror & the Light, the writer has granted a

rare audience to our literary editor Erica Wagner, accompanied

by a dramatic photo-shoot in Hampton Court Palace, where

her Tudor protagonist once held sway. The result is a unique

celebration of the crossover between art, fashion and literature

in the greatest tradition of this magazine.

April is our ‘Best of British’ issue, so it feels particularly

timely that I write this on the evening that Britain officially

leaves the EU. Looking through these pages will, I hope, serve

as a reminder that whatever one’s feelings about Brexit may be,

we can surely all unite in agreement that there is so much to

celebrate about this ‘scepter’d isle’. The beauty of the British

landscape and its ancient buildings is highlighted here in three

glorious fashion shoots, set respectively amid the Palladian

grandeur of Chiswick House, surrounded by land art in

Richmond Park, and during a golden day on the loveliest

part of the Dorset coast. Meanwhile, the most cosseting

boutique hotels around the country are highlighted on

the travel pages for anyone contemplating a luxurious

holiday on these shores. And for those Britons who

live elsewhere, our cover star Gugu Mbatha-Raw

offers a novel method of staving off homesickness: she

fills a bath with Epsom salts and lies back to a soundtrack

of pouring rain...

The arrival of spring often sees

me commuting on foot. This chic

Michael Kors tailored coat and jeans can

cope with whatever the weather throws

at me, and I’ll stride out stylishly in

Prada’s elegant riding boots, with

my necessities in Fendi’s

jaunty tote.

EDITOR’S

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