The history of the hotel on Park Lane in central London, which offers a more modern take on opulence than its rivals like the Ritz or Claridge's. The Beatles partied in the huge ballroom, Prince Philip held his stag do there and Elizabeth Taylor spent five of her eight honeymoons at the hotel, while Dwight D Eisenhower stayed while helping to plan D-Day and Peter Sellers courted Britt Ekland with bouquets from the hotel flower shop