The Dorchester opened on 18 April 1931, and it still retains its 1930s furnishings and ambiance despite being modernised.
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13 Facts About The Dorchester
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Queen Elizabeth II attended the Dorchester when she was a princess on the day prior to the announcement of her engagement to Philip Mountbatten on 10 July 1947.
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Today The Dorchester has five restaurants: The Grill, Alain Ducasse, The Spatisserie, The Promenade, and China Tang.
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New The Dorchester Hotel was feted with a grand opening on 18 April 1931 by Lady Violet Astor.
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Bostonian Sherry Mangan of Time was one of several American correspondents who stayed at the hotel during the war, meeting the Trotskyist Sam Gordon in 1944, who asked if the Dorchester was safe from air raids, to which Mangan assured him that "every fifth columnist in London is staying here".
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Diners at the Dorchester included Cyril Connolly, T S Eliot, Harold Nicolson, Edith Sitwell, Ralph Richardson, Elizabeth Taylor, Alfred Hitchcock, and Barbra Streisand.
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Queen Elizabeth II attended the Dorchester when she was a princess on the day prior to the announcement of her engagement to Philip Mountbatten on 10 July 1947.
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The Dorchester Collection owns luxury hotels in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Switzerland and Italy.
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Considerable efforts to make the rooms soundproof at the Dorchester were made from the outset; the exterior walls were faced with cork, and the floors and ceilings of the bedrooms and suites were lined with compressed seaweed.
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The Dorchester incorporated aspects of stage design into the hotel interior, and designed the lavish apartments on the 7th and 8th floors.
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The Dorchester has five restaurants: The Grill, Alain Ducasse, The Spatisserie, The Promenade, and China Tang, and three bars, two of which are in the last two restaurants.
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John and Cynthia were unaware of the high profile of the event and attended with a hangover, with Lennon disappointing the crowd which had gathered at the Dorchester who were expecting a speech, simply muttering "Thank you very much, it's been a pleasure".
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