The Economist’s “Britain” column explains the peculiar magazine, Country Life, that focuses its coverage on upper-class living in Great Britain’s countryside. The magazine explains:

Britain offers two kinds of country life. There is “country life”, the simple act of living in the country. Then there is Country Life, an upper-case, upper-class magazine that is related to country living (it features a lot of cows) but also very different (it features a lot of country houses and croquet lawns). Country Life is less a mere publication than an institution. British novelists satirise it; British landmarks are sold in it (in 1915 Stonehenge was flogged for £6,600, or £602,340 in today’s money); British royalty reads it (Charles is a fan). The other British royal family, the Beckhams, rather like it too: David reads it from cover to cover. It is, like the royals, surprisingly popular: 40,000 buy it each week.

You can get an idea of the Country Life style in the video below of its coverage of last year’s Chelsea Flower Show.