Queen Margrethe II of Denmark's raincoat, made in 1995 by Jørgen Bender from a tablecloth

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in a raincoat she designed herself. It was sewn by her friend, the couturier Jørgen Bender, in 1995 from a tablecloth that Margrethe had bought at the Peter Jones department store in London and brought to the atelier, asking him to make a cheerful garment out of this cheerful fabric. Almost thirty years on, the coat still serves its queen

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark's raincoat, made in 1995 by Jørgen Bender from a tablecloth

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s