Historical Hotel in London
William Claridge, Butler bought an aristocratic family, a small hotel in Brook Street and in 1854 expanded its activities by another hotel in the same street called Mivart’s. “Claridge’s, the late Mivart,” as he is known for a few years ago to pursue a reputation as London and Continental aristocrats reputation was enhanced in 18 60, when Queen Victoria, the French Empress Eugenie, who had visits temporary residence there during their stay in England. During World War II, the exiled king of Yugoslavia was the life Claridge’s when his wife gave birth to a son and heir.
2.The Ritz
Although it was already out of the Savoy, the financial scandals and psychological problems in retirement, the hotel has been built to the specifications of the legendary hotelier Cesar Ritz and it was what he called the little house that I am very proud attached to my name. ” Opened in 1906 at the Ritz was immediately followed one of the rich and famous. Over the years, the Aga Khan and John Paul Getty suites it haunts minor European royalty in exile from his republican regime transitions and Hollywood stars have the attention of fans by retiring, had fled her room. The Ritz is now supported by the Barclay brothers belonged famous.
3. the Brown
The hotel was designed by James Brown, a servant, and his wife Sarah, who was a daughter, Lady Byron, which opened in 1837. It was the case of Alexander Graham Bell’s first long distance telephone call to England in 1876. Sitting in a room at Brown, he called a colleague who was in a house near Ravenscourt Park. Theodore Roosevelt was married in London and was staying at Brown, when his marriage to Edith Kermit Carow at St George’s, Hanover Square was. Franklin D. Eleanor Roosevelt and his wife spent their honeymoon at the hotel. During the Second World War, the Dutch government in exile declared war on Japan from chamber 36 in Brown.
4.The Savoy
Savoy was the impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte, who first staged the operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, built and opened in 1889. His first manager was Cesar Ritz, the first chef Auguste Escoffier. Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, at the height of the case, which eventually ruined Wilde, often stayed at the Savoy. In his third attempt in 1895, Wilde was one among others, are accused and convicted of committing acts of gross indecency with male persons unknown in rooms 346 and 362 of the Savoy. The short way to the House of Savoy is the only road in the UK, where the driver on the right side, a practice that until the time of the railway carriages drive dates. The staff of the hotel lobby is now Fountain Court, where William Blake lived in the last years of his life.
5.The Langham
Opened in 1865 with a festive meal for two thousand guests, including Prince of Wales, The Langham has quickly become one of the best hotels in London with an elite clientele. The hotel was the scene of a meal, two of the finest novels of the late nineteenth century. Joseph Stoddart, editor of America magazine Lippincotfs was visiting London and staying The Langham Hotel, where he received Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle to dinner. He ordered “The Sign of Four” by Doyle and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Wilde.
6.The Dorchester
Built on the grounds of the Hotel Villa Dorchester House opened its doors in 1931. Famous guests over the years, Somerset Maugham, Elizabeth Taylor, Danny Kaye (which must be performed in a cabaret at the hotel in the years before his fame was so great that he could not afford to stay in one of his costumes), Jackie Collins and included General Eisenhower, had a number of rooms in Dorchester, while planning the invasion of Normandy. Prince Philip celebrated bachelor party was at the hotel. Foyle’s Literary Lunch at the Dorchester began in the 1930s persist.
7.The Connaught
The hotel was originally known as German Coburg, but sounding names were unlikely to improve operations during the First World War and changed its name. General de Gaulle stayed at the hotel during a period when he was leader of the Free French in London during the Second World War.
8. The Cadogan
Built in 1887, is the Cadogan Hotel, where Oscar Wilde was arrested on charges of gross indecency. Apparently paralyzed by indecision was wild in Room 118 at Cadogan with her lover, the son of Lord Alfred Douglas Queensberry, sipping glasses of hock and seltzer officers came to arrest him.
9. The Carlton
The Carlton at the Haymarket and in 1899 was experienced by the team hotel Cesar Ritz and Auguste Escoffier chef, who had such success had opened the Savoy. The coronation banquet and therefore had to be postponed. Bombed during the Second World War was the year Carlton vacuum after the war until it finally demolished in 1958.
