How did Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty become fit for a princess?

From its starring role in the Duchess of Cambridge’s tour wardrobe, to a forthcoming retrospective at the V&A, the McQueen brand is riding high. So how did a label known for avant-garde fashion become the duchess’s go-to supplier of elegant pastel outfits?

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

Joséphine’s letters to trusted Napoleon general to go on sale in Paris

Expert describes four unpublished letters to chief of staff Alexandre Berthier as ‘wonderful, intimate and revealing’

Budget cuts threaten Kew Gardens’ world-class status

Up to 125 jobs to go at botanic institution after ministers impose £1.5m cuts despite warning of critical impact on research

The common ground between coffee geeks and growers

With climate change decimating the harvest, caring about coffee is not just a hipster indulgence