On March 22nd 1927 their Majesties the King and Queen visited the May Fair Hotel and were graciously pleased to make a tour of inspection. This tablet commemorates the signal honour paid to this British enterprise.
W1, Stratton Street, May Fair Hotel
The brown plaque is inside the hotel lobby. Don’t be put off by the doorman – he watched our bike for us while we popped in for the photo.
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King and Queen visit May Fair Hotel
Reigned: 1910 - 1936. Â Born third in line to the throne, after his father (wh...
Wife of George V, grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Born Princess Victoria M...
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King and Queen visit May Fair Hotel
A luxury hotel, built on the site of the grounds of Devonshire House. opened ...
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King and Queen visit May Fair Hotel
2023: the building seems to be used by the Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery and also by the Godiva Printing Shop.
The quotation comes from a school morning prayer much quoted on the net but we could find no source.
The inscription is a quote from William Morris's 1890 "News from Nowhere", in which the narrator, William Guest, the previous day having ...
Note that that, though blue, this is not an English Heritage plaque. At Beatles in London the 'plaque committee' is given as Richard Port...
This 1895 map has some remarkable detailing of the building (a wide spiral staircase and elsewhere castellated walls with, in Gothic scri...
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