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Dorchester Hotel

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PixieBooo · 26/07/2023 17:31

Put The Dorchester on your shit lists. They gifted Dylan and some other man cosplaying as a woman a week free in one of their suites. Dylan is also now a Dorchester "partner" so I assume further freebies to follow. Not sure what he's done to warrant a free weeks stay in one of their lovely suites but ok.

Bit of a shame for us as my ASD daughter and I have a little tradition of going there for afternoon tea in the Christmas holidays. Lots of lovely places in London though, I'm sure we'll find somewhere else but slightly annoying as she likes the familiarity and knowing what to expect.

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Chersfrozenface · 27/07/2023 14:37

Also, I wonder which unfortunate will get the job of arranging one part for an entirely different vocal range and combining that range into the ensemble numbers

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/07/2023 14:34

The story can be rewritten, bad old Henry and Cromwell were just transphobic and Anne Boleyn was executed for being non binary.

Chersfrozenface · 27/07/2023 14:32

Aren't the performers supposed to be able to sing? Though I suppose anyone can identify as a singer.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 27/07/2023 14:32

And the producers of Six are currently actively recruiting for a trans woman to play one of the queens (told this by a casting agent)….

I bet they are.

BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 27/07/2023 14:20

The thought of him playing either abused and murdered woman, or any of them, is just grim.

BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 27/07/2023 14:19

DorotheaDiamond · 27/07/2023 10:34

The thought of Dylan playing KH (most likely given his little girl affect) makes me want to cry. KH was an abused and manipulated child…

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Indeed. Although I thought he would end up as AB partially because Anne Boleyn is often seen as the “main one”, and also because he’s too old for KH (sorry, Dyls)
There’s a woman I used to follow on TikTok who is a scholar of the wives of Henry VIII, and I used to love her posts- until one day she started banging on about TWAW, after which it was hard to take anything g she said seriously.

Kimfluencer · 27/07/2023 12:43

BarqsHasBite · 26/07/2023 20:32

The Winter Garden at the Landmark hotel is amazing for afternoon tea at Christmas.

I was going to recommend this. Much better than the Dorchester.

warblingwater · 27/07/2023 12:38

Was it the Dorchester that also paid for that influencer Lydia Millen to have a stay and everyone was up in arms when she started a tiktok something like "oh the boilers on the blink so I'm going to have to wash my harrrr at The Dorchestarrrr" ??

Baffles me why a hotel that would've been considered prestigious would get on the influencer train. Sigh.

dunBle · 27/07/2023 11:04

My money's on Anne of Cleves

DorotheaDiamond · 27/07/2023 10:34

BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 27/07/2023 07:37

Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard

The thought of Dylan playing KH (most likely given his little girl affect) makes me want to cry. KH was an abused and manipulated child…

Bleepbloopbluurp · 27/07/2023 08:37

And the producers of Six are currently actively recruiting for a trans woman to play one of the queens (told this by a casting agent)….

Of course, that might explain why so few of Henry's wives had children.

Chersfrozenface · 27/07/2023 08:31

I wonder whether the owners know what the Dorchester's PR department, or more likely PR agency, has been up to.

Beowulfa · 27/07/2023 08:11

Haven't been for a while, but Browns is a quiet old fashioned London hotel for afternoon tea. It's the inspiration for Agatha Christie's At Bertram's Hotel.

Does Mulvaney have dirt on very influential media people or something? Gender-wank aside, I don't understand his marketing appeal; he looks manic and unwell.

BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 27/07/2023 07:38

EsmaCannonball · 26/07/2023 21:39

Just think, if toddler Elizabeth had declared her desire to take up jousting instead of playing with dolls then they could have declared her a boy and Anne Boleyn wouldn't have been judicially murdered.

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“A boy without a winkie! God be praised, it’s a miracle”

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BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 27/07/2023 07:37

Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard

WearyLady · 27/07/2023 07:34

AB? KH?

BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 27/07/2023 07:32

@DorotheaDiamond Do you think that that means Dylan will be in the West End soon? Presumably as either AB or KH which is pretty tasteless and depressing if true.

Martinisarebetterdirty · 26/07/2023 21:51

The Mandarin Oriental has a lovely afternoon tea, Claridges also lovely.

EsmaCannonball · 26/07/2023 21:39

BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 26/07/2023 20:21

Interestingly, Toby Marlowe is one of the “non-binary” writers who wrote Six, about the wives of Henry VIII, who were totally able to identify out of their sex-based oppression.

Just think, if toddler Elizabeth had declared her desire to take up jousting instead of playing with dolls then they could have declared her a boy and Anne Boleyn wouldn't have been judicially murdered.

BarqsHasBite · 26/07/2023 20:32

The Winter Garden at the Landmark hotel is amazing for afternoon tea at Christmas.

littleripper · 26/07/2023 20:30

That's very poor if Dylan is working for a chain owned by one of the most homophobic regimes in the world

DorotheaDiamond · 26/07/2023 20:28

BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 26/07/2023 20:21

Interestingly, Toby Marlowe is one of the “non-binary” writers who wrote Six, about the wives of Henry VIII, who were totally able to identify out of their sex-based oppression.

And the producers of Six are currently actively recruiting for a trans woman to play one of the queens (told this by a casting agent)….

BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 26/07/2023 20:21

Interestingly, Toby Marlowe is one of the “non-binary” writers who wrote Six, about the wives of Henry VIII, who were totally able to identify out of their sex-based oppression.

BadGranny · 26/07/2023 20:13

The Berkeley does a fabulous afternoon tea. My son, a classically trained chef, has asked to have afternoon tea there on his birthday, instead of going out for dinner.

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PixieBooo · 26/07/2023 20:09

Awww thank you @QueenHippolyta, I'll add that to our list.

I genuinely had no idea @BodegaSushi! I just thought it was a nice convenient hotel for our tea as it's near where we normally stay. Will definitely research a bit better in future, lesson learnt.

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