After the marriage service at All Souls Church, Langham Place, the 26-year-old Kipling had a late lunch with his best man and cousin Ambrose Poynter.

He described it in a 1907 letter as ‘our faithful, beloved, warm, affectionate Brown’s Hotel.’ The first-floor suite of rooms overlooking Albemarle Street, which the Kiplings had occupied at the start of their marriage, was always kept reserved for them when they were in town.

Stephen King, suffering from jetlag and with the outline of a new plot scribbled out on an American Airlines cocktail napkin, went downstairs to find a quiet place to write.

Future American president Theodore Roosevelt was married to Edith Carow on 2 December 1886 at St George’s, Hanover Square while staying at Brown's Hotel.

During World War II, Dutch Prime Minister Pieter Gerbrandy took up residence at Brown’s for the duration of the conflict.

Charlie's (formerly HIX Mayfair and Beck at Brown's) is an à la carte restaurant which serves seasonal British cuisine with contemporary European influence.

[4] The Drawing Room, at the front of the hotel, has served afternoon tea and light snacks since the mid-nineteenth century; it features fine wood-panelling and Paul Smith décor.