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Kate Middleton used to be a self conscious teenager who was "thin and pale" and had "very little confidence" before she met Prince William at St Andrews University.

The Rossettis were a “weird” bunch, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard. Born in London to Italian political exiles and raised to be “precocious artists and poets”, they were a major fixture of Victorian Britain’s cultural landscape. Dante Gabriel (1828-82), a painter, would become the co-founder and de facto…

Dante Gabriel’s paintings are shown up by his sister Christina’s poetry in this baffling, overblown exhibition about the decidedly non-revolutionary pre-Raphaelites

There’s poetry on the walls in this fascinating examination of these mainstays of the Pre-Raphaelite movement

From bedding to curtains and everything in between, these floral fabrics nail the pattern trend

From Wagner to William Morris in the late 19th century, via Tolkien’s dwarves and CS Lewis’s The Last Battle, through to last year’s controversial film The Northman, Scandinavian gods and heroes have been central to the stories we tell ourselves.

Carrie and the PM blew £7,560 on sofas, £8,500 on lamps – and £3,675 on a ‘Nureyev drinks trolley’ that actually features two pairs of brass hands desperately clinging on. Is this the most metaphorical home accessory ever?

The Conservative party’s latest £20,000-a-table function for donors at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a stain on one of our great institutions

Jane Morris’s creative influence on her husband’s design empire has finally been revealed in a new book

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As the gates open to the public, green fingered journalist Clare Coulson picks her top plots to see at Chelsea