Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alec Cobbe at Hatchlands Park in Surrey, which he restored into a ‘jewel of the National Trust crown’ and filled with his ...

Alec Cobbe was a long-term friend of King Charles for many years and was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ...

Charles, 77, is said to be deeply affected by the death of Richard "Alec" Cobbe, who died aged 81 at the end of March. The Anglo-Irish designer and collector had been a long-time confidant of Charles, ...

Alec Cobbe, who has died aged 81, was blessed with an extraordinary number of talents and the energy to pursue them all; a virtuoso in the Georgian tradition, he represented a late flowering of the ...