9 Historic London Hotels

1. Claridge's

Actor Spencer Tracy once remarked, "Not that I intend to die, but when I do, I do not go to heaven, I want to go to Claridge." William Claridge, a servant of an aristocratic family, a small hotel and in 1854 in Brook Street, bought what is called Mivart Street has expanded its business by adding another hotel. 'Claridge's, Mivart's late as it was known for many years, a high reputation and its reputation as the haunt of London Continental Elite 18 was extended to 60 when Queen Victoria French empress, Eugenie, who visited had taken temporary residence there during her stay in England. Yugoslavia during World War II, the exiled king was staying at Claridge's when his wife gave birth to a son and heir. A right that 60-year-old prince still maintains in 2006 - Churchill to ensure that children have a right to the throne of the day declared the suit Yugoslav region.

2.The Ritz

Although he already had financial scandals and mental health problems later retired from Savoy, the famous hotelier Cesar Ritz Hotel was built to the specifications and it became what it is the little house which I am very proud is called to see my name connected ". Opened in 1906, Ritz quickly became a haunt of the rich and famous. Years since, the Aga Khan and John Paul Getty suites there, the Republican government in exile minor European royalty and Hollywood stars in the corridors, retires to his room by the attentions of her fans have had haunted fled. In 1921, Charlie Chaplin, for the first time unknown music hall artist in the city he had left return, almost caused a riot outside the Ritz and four policemen through the adoring but demanding to be employed in order to He was the security guard fans. The Ritz is owned by the now famous reclusive Barclay Brothers.

'3. Brown's

Hotel James Brown, a servant and his wife Sarah, a maid who in 1837 Lady Byron, was opened by the was. This was where Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 in England made the first long distance telephone calls. Brown sat in a room, he is a colleague who was called to a house near Ravenscourt Park. Theodore Roosevelt was married in London and that Brown was staying when he St. George, Edith Kermit Carow in Hanover Square for the wedding went. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor his wife spent their honeymoon at the hotel. Dutch government in exile during World War II in the cell 36 from Brown declared war against Japan.

4.The Savoy

Savoy impresario Richard D 'Oyly Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas staged for the first time, and opened in 1889 was made. His first manager, Cesar Ritz, Auguste Escoffier was chef before. Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde ultimately destroyed at the height of the case, Savoy often stayed. His third trial in 1895 was wild, the other counts, charged among 346 rooms and 362 of Savoy gross indecency with the unknown male persons convicted of working. Savoy only common way to England at the road where the driver is OK, the horse-drawn ace a custom dates to the time of the cabs on the drive. Fountain Court Hotel's staff entrance, where William Blake lived in the last years of his life is.

5.The Langham

Two thousand guests, including Prince of Wales for a celebratory dinner with opened in 1865, Langham fast with a specific customer as one of London's finest hotels set. Old Bailey in the 1880s a witness in the fraud case, saying one of the defendants expressed his faith in good faith, "I wanted it to be a perfect man. - Why, he had rooms at the Langham Hotel 'is a food of the two best short fiction of the late nineteenth century was the scene of production. Joseph Stoddart, Lippincotfs magazine publisher in the U.S., was visiting London and staying in the Langham when Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle dinner entertainment. He commissioned by Doyle Four sign "and wild" picture of Dorian Gray.

6.The Dorchester

Dorchester House mansion built on the site, the hotel was opened in 1931. Over the years, famous guests, Somerset Maugham, Elizabeth Taylor, Danny Kaye (who had performed in cabarets in the hotel years before his reputation was such that he may stay in their suites), Jackie Collins and General Eisenhower is included , which had a set of rooms in Dorchester, while he was planning to invade Normandy. Prince Philip stag night was celebrated at the hotel. Foyle's literary luncheons 1930 Dorchester began in the sixties and is still continuing.

7.The Connaught

Coburg Hotel was originally known as the German sounding name, but during the World War were not likely to improve the business and changed its name. General de Gaulle when he was a time in London during World War II Free French leader stayed in the hotel. If the crime writer Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe, who had visited the manufacturer of London in 1950, but that to a woman was found in his room said.

8. Cadogan

Cadogan, 1887 built the hotel in which Oscar Wilde was arrested on charges of gross indecency. Of his Queensberry Marquess, who him a 'somdomite' to be a misspelled message libel case against the accused after the fall, Wilde was clearly threatened by the prosecution urged the continent to themselves and friends escape. Apparently paralyzed by indecision, Wild Cadogan his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas Queensberry son remained with 118 rooms, officers arrived to arrest him a glass of hock and seltzer drink.

9. Carlton

Carlton was standing in Haymarket hotelier Cesar Ritz and Auguste Escoffier chef at Savoy's experienced team who had such success in 1899 was opened by. Three years after opening, Carlton for a grand feast to the scene of the coronation of Edward VII and was preparing to celebrate when the news came through on that King had an appendectomy was necessary. Coronation, and so was adjourned for lunch. Workaholic and holistic Ritz so frustrated that he had a breakdown from which he never properly recovered, even though he went on to Piccadilly hotel that still bears his name opened. World War II bombing, Carlton after the war remained empty for years until it was finally demolished in 1958. New Zealand House now stands on the site.


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