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Editor’s letter • From portraiture to the Prince’s Trust International

LEADING THE CHANGE • Introducing the inspiring young people whose lives have been transformed thanks to the Prince’s Trust International programmes

The BYSTANDER

THE DAY AFTER…

…THE NIGHT BEFORE

PRINTS CHARMING

WILD HEARTS

HOWDY YOU DO?

TOMORROW’S WHIRL

DECK THE HALL

Mumbai’s the word • Billionaires, Bollywood stars and beautiful people flocked to the front row as Dior debuted an elaborate collection that dazzled everyone from the Ambanis to Zita d’Hauteville

BACK TO THE ’70s? • Get ready for the remix: today’s bright young things just can’t get enough of the disco decade

One direction • The only way is up for Rebecca Frecknall, the award-winning director behind Cabaret and A Streetcar Named Desire. Now, with her reimagining of Romeo and Juliet making a splash at the Almeida, she takes Tatler behind the scenes of her rise to the top. By Annabel Sampson

YOU’VE BEEN FRAMED • IT’S ALL CHANGE AT CHATSWORTH AS THE NEXT GENERATION OF DEVONSHIRES TAKES THE KEYS AND PUTS SOME OF THE FAMILY’S FINEST PORTRAITS ON DISPLAY AT SOTHEBY’S

GETTING SMASHED • Lock up your Chippendales and hold on to your Hirsts – a spate of not-so-happy accidents has seen damage beyond repair to some of society’s most precious objets d’art. But at what cost?

Eat, Fay, love • Fay Maschler follows the snail trail to The Suffolk, a seaside offshoot of Soho stalwart L’Escargot

POWER DRESSING • From Barnardo’s boy to Camilla’s couturier, Bruce Oldfield was the obvious choice to design the Queen’s coronation gown. Revealing the secrets behind the splendour, he describes the most momentous commission of his life

THE IT List • The little luxuries you need to get through the month

Just add diamonds • This season’s high jewellery sprinkles stardust over Tatler’s elegantly illustrated 1950s front covers

PRETTY AS A PICTURE • Play to the gallery in clothes that put glamour in the frame

His royal likeness • He’s notoriously canvas-shy – but has the coronation marked a new chapter in portraiture for King Charles III, asks Helen Rosslyn

CAPTURING A KING • ARTIST SARAH KNIGHTS TALKS TO HELEN ROSSLYN ABOUT THE BIGGEST COMMISSION OF HER LIFE

The modern goddesses • The National Portrait Gallery reopens this month with an exhibition of trailblazing photography by Madame Yevonde, whose 1935 ‘Goddesses and others’ series dreamily depicted the day’s society swans. Now, their modern counterparts recreate her pictures in magical, mythical style

Thoroughly modern muses

CALLING THE SHOTS • More than 100 years after The Tatler first published Madame Yevonde’s pioneering society portraits, a major new exhibition is celebrating her colourful life and career

IN AT THE DEEP END • Whether he’s swimming with sharks or capturing Waleses, it’s all in a day’s work for Matt Porteous, William and Kate’s go-to family photographer. Harriet Kean meets him

‘SMILE, YOUR MAJESTY!’ – A HISTORY OF ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

bystander • ALL ROYAL SNAPPERS START SOMEWHERE: FOR MATT PORTEOUS, IT WAS THE OCEAN; FOR HUGO BURNAND, IT WAS TATLER’S BYSTANDER

Ford focused • Palm Beach, Manhattan, Eaton Square… Henry Ford II and his third wife, Kathleen, were American royalty, with glamorous homes on either side of the Atlantic and jetset lifestyles to match. Now, Kathleen’s daughter Kimberly DuRoss and It-girl granddaughter Tara are conquering the London social...