'Sometimes Princess Diana was at the Savoy twice a day': Meet the old timers of London's grande dames
They are ready and waiting for the capital's hotels to reopen 15 May 2021 • 2:00pm It’s not just London’s spectacular properties that have stood the test of time – a number of their distinguished staff have, too Old guidebooks bought cheaply off the internet have been getting me through lockdown. I have armchair-travelled to Italy and France in 1960 and to India in 1965. I don’t think the Hides had a copy of Fodor’s Great Britain 1975 on a family day trip from Yorkshire to London that year. But I do remember seven-year-old me riding on the Tube, being allowed to choose a toy at ...