The secret life of the Savoy: A hotel so fine one guest stayed for 40 years
HISTORY THE SECRET LIFE OF THE SAVOY by Olivia Williams (Headline £20, 323pp) The Savoy Hotel, situated in a court off the Strand where vehicles are required to drive on the right, opened in 1889 ‘with great pomp and publicity’. For the century they ran it, the D’Oyly Carte family insisted upon ‘the most careful … Read more