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A right royal party for Shakespeare

Where was Leslie Caron? Was she there?

On 14th February, I hosted a Valentine's Day party at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London's Park Lane.

Walt Disney stayed at Grosvenor House on his honeymoon. As girls, the future Elizabeth II and her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, learned to skate on the hotel's ice rink. The rink is still there, under the floorboards in the Great Room, the largest function room in Europe.

More recently, Mrs Biden stayed at Grosvenor House when

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