Alexandra Hotel

Overview

The hotel where Marie and her aunt lodge in London in September 1874. Arriving at Charing Cross on 6 September she writes: «Pendant que nous allons jusqu'à Alexandra Hotel je regarde à droite et à gauche avec une satisfaction croissante ... j'entre enfin à l'hôtel comme si j'entrais dans ma propre maison» (023.0573). The diary gives no address; the Alexandra Hotel of Knightsbridge, facing Hyde Park, enlarged and reopened in 1864 by the Alexandra Hotel Company, bombed in 1941 and demolished in 1954, is the likely hotel (Wikipedia, «Alexandra Hotel, Knightsbridge»), and fits the days she spends in Hyde Park (Hyde Park). The identification is inferred (0.7), not stated by Marie.

In Marie's diary

• 1874-09-06 (023.0573, arrival from Charing Cross): the only tagged mention.