 Blue plaque to Lillie Langtree The Cadogan Hotel is one of London's most prestigious luxury hotels and restaurants. Built in 1887, it is situated on Sloane Street, Knightsbridge. The private garden houses tennis courts, jogging track, and children's playground. Its award-winning restaurant offers modern British cuisine with a French influence. There is a cocktail bar and afternoon tea is served in the drawing room. 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ...
Sloane Street is a street in London which connects Knightsbridge to Sloane Square and forms the boundary between the exclusive districts of Belgravia and Chelsea. ...
Click Here for Knightsbridge, Castle Hill Australia Knightsbridge is a place in the City of Westminster, London notable for its expensive shops, including Harrods. ...
A cuisine (from French cuisine, meaning cooking; culinary art; kitchen; itself from Latin coquina, meaning the same; itself from the Latin verb coquere, meaning to cook) is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a place of origin. ...
A cocktail. ...
Tea (a meal, as opposed to the beverage), has different meanings according to country. ...
In British society, a drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. ...
Lillie Langtry, famous actress and close friend of Edward VII, lived at 21 Pont Street from 1892 to 1897. Long after she had sold the house, Lillie would stay in her old bedroom, by then a part of the hotel. A blue plaque commemorates this. Lillie Langtry [1] [2] [3] [4] (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, nicknamed the Jersey Lily) (13 October 1853 – 12 February 1929) was a British actress and courtesan born on the island of Jersey in 1853. ...
A blue plaque showing information about The Spanish Barn at Torre Abbey in Torquay. ...
Today The Cadogan has the feel of a private townhouse steeped with British old-world elegance. The experience is complemented by touches of unexpected modernity, which are subtly woven in to bring this historical building into the 21st Century.
Oscar Wilde
Shortly after opening, the hotel became infamous for the arrest of Oscar Wilde on 6 April 1895, in room no. 118. He was charged with "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" (a euphemism for any sex between males) under Section 11 of the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act. Despite pleas by friends to flee the country, Wilde chose to stay and martyr himself for his cause. The events in the room were immortalised by the poet laureate John Betjeman in his tragic poem The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel. It has been suggested that Wildes Manuscripts be merged into this article or section. ...
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Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August 1906–19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Whos Who as a poet and hack. He was born to a middle-class family in Edwardian London. ...
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