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  • The Secret Life of the Savoy

  • And the D’Oyly Carte Family
  • By: Olivia Williams
  • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
  • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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By: Olivia Williams
Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
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The captivating story of the famed Savoy Hotel’s founders, told through three generations - and 100 years - of glamour and high society.

For the gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real swans were swimming in the water, and, as a final flourish, a baby elephant borrowed from the London Zoo pulled a five-foot-high birthday cake.

In three generations, the D’Oyly Carte family and London’s Savoy Hotel pioneered the idea of the luxury hotel and the modern theater, propelled Gilbert and Sullivan to lasting stardom, made Oscar Wilde a transatlantic celebrity, inspired a P. G. Wodehouse series, and popularized early jazz, electric lights, and Art Deco.

Following the history of the iconic Savoy Hotel through three generations of the D’Oyly Carte family, The Secret Life of the Savoy brings to life the extraordinary cultural legacy of the most famous hotel in the world.
©2020 by Olivia Williams (P)2021 by Headline Publishing Group Limited
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The savoy

You can actually tell by listening to this book that it was no wonder it’s the most famous hotel in the world..Fascinating story of the owners and its guests. The place where the rich and famous lived. Some for decades.

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