Royal Hotel

The Royal Hotel is a common name for a hotel, or an Australian pub, derived from the custom of naming public buildings after the reigning monarch or the monarchy in general.

Royal Hotel, Sydney, Australia (1872)
Royal Hotel, Railway Parade in Carlton NSW
The Royal Hotel in Darlington NSW
Royal Hotel, Randwick NSW
The Royal Hotel Bungendore NSW
The Royal Hotel at Grong Grong NSW
The Royal Hotel Gundaroo NSW
The Royal Hotel at Mirrool NSW
The Royal Hotel in Queanbeyan ACT
The Royal Hotel at Woodstock NSW

Algeria

Australia

Royal Hotel is the most popular name for a hotel in Australia.[1] The name reflects the historical links between Australia and England and the British Royal Family.

In 1842, the Sydney Gazette claimed that "in size, elegance of design, and accommodation, the Royal Hotel will not suffer by a comparison with those of England – indeed out of London, there are few places which contain its equal."[2] Ten years later, in 1853, the Empire (newspaper) was advertising an "attractive programme" of "Howard's Serenaders" in the saloon of the Royal Hotel in Sydney.[3]

New South Wales

Sydney

Regional NSW

South Australia

Victoria

Melbourne

Regional Victoria

Queensland

Tasmania

Western Australia

Liberia

There is also a Royal Hotel in Monrovia, Liberia.

See also

References

  1. Royal Hotel website
  2. "Royal Hotel". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW). 24 February 1842. p. 3. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  3. "Royal Hotel". The Empire (Sydney). 10 March 1853. p. 2. Retrieved 29 November 2013.

Further reading

Charles H. Bertie (1927) (1st ed): The story of the Royal Hotel and the Theatre Royal, Sydney, Sydney: Simmons. (2nd ed. 1966)

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