Talk:The Cavendish Hotel

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Permissive regime or blind-eye to major functions 1902-1952

"There, from 1902 until she died in 1952, Rosa ran Britain's most famous high-class brothel where she provided classy harlots for members of Parliament, high-ranking military officers, and much of the aristocracy. The hotel-brothel became so famous that in the forties and fifties many members of the British nobility took their sixteen-year-old sons there to introduce them to the pleasures of the flesh and, often, to discreetly ascertain whether or not they were gay. Rosa's guests were not all Brits. Her hotel was used by thousands of visitors from overseas, including many of America's most prominent politicians and millionaires, who were taken to the Cavendish by trusted friends in London for discreet afternoon sessions of tea and crumpet. And tarts. This world-famous cat house somehow managed to escape the attention of Scotland Yard's vice squad. Not once during her fifty-year reign as Britain's Queen of Sex was Rosa Lewis charged with keeping a brothel. " Source: http://www.bilderberg.org/royal.htm [Unsigned]

The statement "The Cavendish no longer functions as a brothel for aristocrats and Members of Parliament," falsely implies that The Cavendish served as a brothel. The source cited above is a sensationalist religious site of no reliability. The line should be removed from the article. Hendon

It has now been removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hendon (talk • contribs) 16:38, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Secrets of the Royals, by Gordon Winter and Wendy Kochman; St Martin's Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-312-04415-1; is the original source of the above quote. The Cavendish was never a brothel outright. It merely allowed certain "arrangements" to take place on its property.

Crabb & the Grey Rabbit, by Mike Welham (2015) is another source that mentions the Cavendish as functioning partly as a brothel. Lionel Crabb worked at the Cavendish Hotel. 192.40.24.4 (talk) 17:50, 27 October 2015 (UTC)Shandaferde[reply]