Grace Kelly: screen goddess, princess and enduring source of scandal

Kelly’s life was one of glamour, privilege and ultimately tragedy. Now, as Grace of Monaco, the biopic starring Nicole Kidman, opens the Cannes film festival, fresh controversy has stirred

Uffizi Gallery to reopen Renaissance art rooms after €600,000 gift

Fifty more paintings to be exhibited as Florence museum accepts donation from luxury goods firm Salvatore Ferragamo

Why global recovery could depend on China’s taste for luxury

Attitudes are changing in China, but western export hopes are pinned on a swelling middle class embracing its inner consumer

London flat ‘sells for £140m’ to become the city’s most valuable property

One Hyde Park penthouse believed to be taken by overseas buyer, ‘injecting new vitality’ into capital’s super-prime market

British Library to unveil £33m newspaper reading room

State-of-the-art facility will store more than three centuries of newspapers and magazines dating back to the English civil war