Cadogan Hotel

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Blue plaque on the hotel commemorating Lillie Langtry


The Cadogan Hotel is one of London's most prestigious luxury hotels and restaurants. Built in 1887, it is situated on Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London SW1, England. 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.

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.

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.

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Sloane Street is a street in London which runs north to south, from Knightsbridge to Sloane Square, crossing Pont Street about half way along. It forms the boundary between the exclusive districts of Knightsbridge, Belgravia, and Chelsea.
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Knightsbridge


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SW1 is a postcode district in the SW postcode area of London, England.[1]

Postal arrangements

The postcode district is part of the LONDON post town.[1] There are no dependent localities used in the postcode district.
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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Cuisine (from French cuisine, "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; ultimately from Latin coquere, "to cook") is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture.
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A cocktail is a style of mixed drink. However, not all mixed drinks are cocktails. A cocktail usually contains one or more types of liquor and flavorings and one or more liqueurs, fruit juices, sauces, honey, milk, cream or spices, etc.
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tea can refer to any of several different meals or mealtimes.

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A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from withdrawing room. In a large sixteenth, seventeenth or early eighteenth-century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a
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Lillie Langtry (n̩e Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, nicknamed the Jersey Lily) (13 October 1853 Р12 February 1929) was a British actress born on the island of Jersey in 1853.

Emilie Le Breton was the only daughter of the Dean of Jersey, Rev.
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Pont Street is a fashionable street in Knightsbridge and Belgravia, central London, England (postcode SW1), not far from the Knightsbridge department store Harrods to the north-west.
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blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event.

English Heritage Scheme

Perhaps the best-known blue plaques scheme is that which is run by English Heritage in London.
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Oscar Wilde

Born: September 16 1854(1854--)
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For the US Poet Laureate, see .


A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events. The plural form is poets laureate.
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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 Who's Who as a "poet and hack". He was born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead.
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