a toast to Sting and Trudie

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Sting and Trudie, the couple known to most by their mononyms, bought Il Palagio, a 350-hectare estate in the Chianti Colli Fiorentini region in 1997, and have been gradually developing it ever since. They – and some of their four children – tend to stay at the estate mostly in August, but the once-abandoned buildings now house…