Goring Hotel

The Goring Hotel is a 5-star hotel in London, England.

Concourse at Victoria on a Saturday in 1955
Credit: Ben Brooksbank

The Goring Hotel was opened by Otto Richard Goring on 2 March 1910 and professed to be the first hotel in the world in which every room had a private bathroom and central heating.

In 1914, The Goring became the command centre for the Chief of Allied Forces,and contact with President Woodrow Wilson during World War I was made from this hotel.

In November 1917 it became the U.S. Army Headquarters in London, as it was adjacent to the American Naval and Military authorities. The hotel was released back to its owners on 8 September 1919.

In 1919, Lady Randolph Churchill, the mother of Winston Churchill, moved into The Goring Hotel. During World War II, Fox Film stayed at the hotel.

The hotel is the only remaining hotel in London that is still owned and run by the family that built it. The Queen Mother was a regular at The Goring and it was the location for her last public appearance.

In 2011, Kate Middleton and her family were based at the hotel for the days around her wedding to Prince William.

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Added: 29 Nov 2022 20:53 GMT

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Topham’s Hotel at 24-28 Ebury Street was called the Ebury Court Hotel. Its first proprietor was a Mrs Topham. In WW2 it was a favourite watering hole for the various intelligence organisations based in the Pimlico area. The first woman infiltrated into France in 1942, FANY Yvonne Rudellat, was recruited by the Special Operations Executive while working there. She died in Bergen Belsen in April 1945.

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