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Pampered guests and feuding hosts at Claridge’s hotel
Few trophies, it would seem, are more seductive to tycoons than Claridge’s, the grande dame of luxury London hotels, which has a long history of tempting buyers and provoking gentlemen’s quarrels, reports The New York Times.
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