Hotel HIGH LIFE
The Savoy, Britain’s first luxury hotel, opened in 1889. The Savoy’s mastermind was theatre impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte (above). A serial risk-taker and showman, he was already one of Victorian Britain’s biggest success stories as the producer of Gilber t and Sullivan operettas.
Using profits from The Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore, he had built the Savoy Theatre on the Strand. It opened in 1881 with
