Situated almost in the shade of Buckingham Palace and a pleasant walk across St. James's Park, (or short taxi ride), from Horse Guards Parade.
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This award-winning family hotel, (present owner George Goring OBE is the fourth generation) is a convenient favourite with Royalty, nobility and gentry who are visiting Buckingham Palace for Royal functions, investitures, garden parties, Trooping the Colour, etc. To quote the Crown Prince of Norway: "I much prefer to stay at the Goring. I don't have a bathroom to myself at Buckingham Palace." The Palace bathrooms are in fact unlikely to equal the marble splendour of the Goring's "thronerooms". The comfortable restaurant offers leisurely silver service and the best of traditional English cooking of the 'Roast Angus Beef/Sussex Lamb Chops' variety. You will find the lobby photographic record of visiting royalty interesting.
Note that security precautions require overseas applicants for Trooping the Colour tickets to include their proposed UK address and date of arrival in UK.
An excellent inside into London's architectural heritage and the 18th century Palladian architects of the 'Burlington School' can be found in The Architects of London, author Alastair Service, (pub.1979 The Architectural Book Publishing Co., New York).
Hotel details are taken from The Royal Social Season, published in two vols by Royal Report, jointly edited by journalist and broadcaster David Rowan and Stuart Buchanan MacWatt. The 2 volume set together with their accompanying volume The Royal Travel Guide to London is available for US$40 incl. mailing. For full details email to travelsleuth@btinternet.com
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