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Royal Albion Hotel

From LGBT History Project
external view of the hotel
The Royal Albion Hotel

The Royal Albion Hotel is an hotel on the sea front in Brighton.

LGBT history

Oscar Wilde stayed there with a young man.

In the later 19th century the philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts spent part of each year at the hotel with her companion Hannah.

Gay tea dances were held there at one time.[1]

References

  1. Janet Cameron, LGBT Brighton and Hove, page 44.