They sold it in 2004 to Quinlan Private, who sold the Savoy Hotel and Simpson's-in-the-Strand eight months later, for an estimated £ 250 million, to Al-Waleed bin Talal to be managed by Al-Waleed's affiliate, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts of Canada.

The Savoy Group was purchased in 1998 by a private equity house, Blackstone Group, and, after further changes of ownership, the Savoy Hotel and Simpson's were split off from the rest of the group in 2005 and are run by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

* 1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party ( Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP ) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.

The Savoy Hotel managed by César Ritz was an early hotel Escoffier worked at, but much of his influence came during his management of the kitchens in the Carlton from 1898 until 1921.

Savoy Hotel, London, England

* Actor Richard Harris lived at the Savoy Hotel while in London.

* American actress Elaine Stritch lived in the Savoy Hotel in London for over a decade.

The metal was later marketed under the ' Staybrite ' brand by Firth Vickers in England and was used for the new entrance canopy for the Savoy Hotel in London in 1929.

* August 6 – The Savoy Hotel in London opens.

In 2006, Christine was awarded the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors ' Gold Badge of Merit at a ceremony held in London's Savoy Hotel.

Carte also built London's Savoy Hotel and acquired other luxury hotels.

Savoy Hotel, Strand entrance

The Savoy Hotel, designed by architect Thomas Edward Collcutt, opened in 1889.

Five years after the payments began, Mulroney and Schreiber met again in a suite at the Hotel Savoy in Zurich, Switzerland.

Henry made Peter Earl of Richmond in 1241 and gave him the land between the Strand and the Thames, where Peter built the Savoy Palace in 1263, on the site of the present Savoy Hotel.

They returned to London in February 1896, taking rooms at the Savoy Hotel while they sought medical treatment.

In 1889, Richard D ' Oyly Carte built the Savoy Hotel next to the theatre.

After Carte built the Savoy Hotel in 1889, the entrance to the theatre was moved to the hotel's courtyard off the Strand, where it is today.

After Rupert D ' Oyly Carte's death in 1948, his daughter, Bridget D ' Oyly Carte, succeeded to the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company and became a director and later president of the Savoy Hotel group, which controlled the theatre.

The Savoy Hotel group, including the theatre, was sold in 2004 to Quinlan Private which, in turn, sold the theatre in 2005 to the Ambassador Theatre Group ( selling the Savoy Hotel to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal ).

For years, whenever he was in London, Harris resided at the Savoy Hotel.

It fronted on the north the Strand, on the site of the present Savoy Theatre and the Savoy Hotel which memorialise its name and on the south the River Thames.

In 1974, Barbara Mullen played Miss Marple in Murder at the Vicarage at the Savoy Theatre, London.

He then accompanied Marshal Schomberg to England in 1688, and the following year became minister of the French church in the Savoy area of London.

After the battle of the Boyne, Abbadie repaired to London, where he was presently appointed minister of the French church in the Savoy, which had been founded about 1641.

* October 10 – Richard D ' Oyly Carte's Savoy Theatre opens in London, the world's first public building to be fully lit by electricity, using Joseph Swan's incandescent light bulbs.

* January 5 – Gilbert & Sullivan's Princess Ida has its première at the Savoy Theatre, London.

* 1263 – The Savoy Palace is constructed in London by Count Peter II of Savoy.

* June 14 – Peasants ' Revolt: Rebels destroy John of Gaunt's Savoy Palace and storm the Tower of London, killing the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellor.

* The Savoy Palace is constructed in London by Count Peter II of Savoy.

Gilbert and Sullivan trimmed the work for the London premiere, and Gilbert made further alterations up to and including the 1908 Savoy revival.

It opened on March 14, 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, which was the second longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time.

Iolanthe was first produced in London at the Savoy Theatre, on 25 November 1882, three days after Patience closed, and ran for 398 performances.

Iolanthe, the first opera to premiere at the new Savoy Theatre, had a successful initial run in London of 398 performances, spanning the holiday seasons of both 1882 and 1883.

It was first performed by the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre in London on 22 January 1887.

As virtual ruler during Richard's minority, he made unwise decisions on taxation that led to the Peasants ' Revolt in 1381, when the rebels destroyed his Savoy Palace in London.

Through his vast estates he was the richest man in England, and his great wealth, ostentatious display of it, autocratic manner and attitudes, enormous London mansion ( the Savoy Palace on the Strand ) and association with the failed peace process at Bruges combined to make him the most visible target of social resentments.

Elsewhere in London the Savoy Palace of the king's uncle John of Gaunt was one of the buildings destroyed by the rioters.

It is unclear when de Moivre left the Prieure de Saint-Martin and moved to England, as the records of the Prieure de Saint-Martin indicate that he left the school in 1688, but de Moivre and his brother presented themselves as Huguenots admitted to the Savoy Church in London on August 28, 1687.

Graham gave the first model ( or its design ) to the celebrated instrument maker John Rowley of London to make a copy for Prince Eugene of Savoy.

After the U. S. entered the war, business picked up as the Savoy Hotel became a favourite of American officers, diplomats, journalists and others.

The American barman fled 1920s Prohibition in the U. S. to head the Savoy's bars ; author of The Savoy Cocktail Book and inventor of such cocktails as the " White Lady ".

While on tour in Ireland in January 1965, the Rolling Stones breezed into the village on their way to play the Savoy Theatre in Cork where they played one of their last gigs before embarking on their third tour of the U. S. ( the one on which they wrote and recorded " Satisfaction ").

In 1965, the full-sized entry level Plymouth model in the U. S. was the Fury I ; in Canada it was called the Savoy but the top-level models were named Fury II and Fury III.

* Savoy Company ( Philadelphia, U. S .)