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BYSTANDER • Social editor: Davina Chelsea

MAKING A SPLASH

SIZZLING BACON

CECIL TREATMENT

ROYAL APPOINTMENT

EVERYBODY FRIEZE!

JEWEL INTENTIONS

THE LIGHT FANTASTIC

Bringing home THE BACON? • Two Francis Bacon exhibitions have set the London art world alight: one toasted by high society, the other roasted by the artist’s estate for alleged fakery and profit-chasing. What did Richard Eden, the Daily Mail’s Diary Editor, uncover?

SLICES OF HISTORY • Landmark moments in Francis Bacon’s colourful life and career

BILLIONHEIR FILES NEW ENTRY • There’s a new billionaire on the block… As fintech mogul Mark O’Hare relishes the payday of a lifetime, Tatler crunches the numbers

Eat, Fay, love • For a wedding or a weekend lunch, Updown Farmhouse has much to love and cherish, finds Fay Maschler

HAMPERED ENJOYMENT • Love them or loathe them, picnics remain a British obsession. On haystacks or in palace gardens, come rain or shine, society’s alfresco habit is a recipe for remarkable tales…

A PICNIC AT HAMPTON COURT

BLANKET APPROVAL • From sleet-drenched langoustines on Bodmin Moor to an official picnic with Winston Churchill: a feast of memories from society’s upper crust

DEDICATED FOLLOWER • Ready, jet set… go! The hottest trends from the cruise 2025 collections

Winter TAN • Brown is back in town: rich, elegant and quietly commanding

Ruff & READY • Codpieces! Corsets! Treacherous court politics! Wolf Hall is back – and the world is losing its head. As the series reaches its ruthless climax, its stars reveal why Gen Z can’t look away. By Annabel Sampson

Mantel PIECE • In this extract from her final book, double Booker Prize-winning writer Hilary Mantel described the flash of inspiration that led to the phenomenal success of her Wolf Hall trilogy

French POLISH • Channel the soignée style of a First Lady. Whether lounging in her suite at Le Meurice or slipping out on some unofficial business, she’s politically perfect in every way

SCANDALNAVIA! • THOUGHT MEGXIT WAS BAD? FROM HIS DAUGHTER’S CONTROVERSIAL MARRIAGE TO AN ARREST IN THE FAMILY, NORWAY’S KING HAS HAD AN ANNUS HORRIBILIS TO BEAT THEM ALL. TATLER’S MAN ON THE GROUND, THOMAS PERNETTE OF POINT DE VUE, REPORTS FROM THE NORTH

Telling tales • CANDELABRAS AGLOW AND TABLES IMMACULATELY LAID, CLIVEDEN ONCE AGAIN OPENED ITS DOORS TO LUMINARIES OF LITERATURE FOR THE ULTIMATE SOCIETY BOOK CLUB

THE IT List • Make it your New Year’s resolution to spoil yourself

GOLD STANDARD • It’s time for the big reveal: from 24-carat facials to four-handed massages, Tatler’s beauty director uncovers the most luxurious treatments in town

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See you in court… • From string-plucking minstrels to Pucci’s heraldic prints: courtly concerns make front-page news

The Travel Editor’s BRAT SUMMER • What is the party-girl zeitgeist? Inspired by the album of the year, Delilah Khomo goes on heady adventures to the world’s most unapologetically fabulous temples of hedonism

I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE • Raise a glass to the enigmatic hotelier Paddy McKillen, who has created the premier cru of wine-estate utopias at Villa La Coste

PRACTICAL magic • Just divine! From an ancient Celtic healing ritual and a Shamanic trance dance to enlightening pilgrimages and meditations with monks, these life-enhancers are truly out of this world

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