It quickly established a reputation for luxury with clients including royalty, politicians, writers, film stars and singers.

[1] In 1913 the Marble Room (Danish: Marmorsalen) was built as a restaurant and it became the social focal point for the upper classes in the city.

In 1972 the Marble Room briefly became home to the jazz club Royal Birdland which managed to attract international artists such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

In 1983 the hotel changed owners again and was renovated again and the Queens Garden was built and today functions as a restaurant.

The design merges past and present with a windbreak of glass with a fan-shaped roof carried by columns and 3 copper caryatids made by local artist Hans Oldau Krull.

[3] Hotel Royal has some 300 art works by different artists such as Asger Jorn, Karel Appel, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky and older genre paintings by Wennewald, Høyrup and Friis Hansen, Åge Jensen, Frederik Madsen, Wennermoes, Alex Secher and Adolf Larsen.

There are also newer art works by artists who has been good friends of the hotel such as Jørgen Nash, his wife Lis Zwick, Teddy Sørensen, Tine Hind, Margit Enggaard Pedersen, Lene Noer, Axel Lind, Bent Holstein, Karl Johan Sennels, Hans Krull and Per Kramer along with works by multimedia artists such as Johnny Madsen and Peter Viskinde.