| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Royal Castle Hotel ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Royal Castle Hotel
The Royal Castle Hotel is an AA three-star hotel in Dartmouth, Devon. It is situated with a view of Dartmouth Harbour and the River Dart estuary.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Royal Castle Hotel )〕 In the past, the hotel located on Dartmouth's waterfront had the distinction of hosting Queen Victoria, Sir Francis Drake, and Mary (who later became Mary II of England). The hotel was used as a location for the 1984 film, "Ordeal by Innocence", which was based on the 1958 Agatha Christie novel of the same name and starred Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer and Sarah Miles. Agatha Christie renamed the hotel the Royal George in 'The Regatta Mystery', a short story that first appeared in The Strand Magazine in 1936 and which currently forms part of the 1991 short story collection Problem at Pollensa Bay.
==History==
The hotel was built in 1639, but there was evidently a previous hotel or inn here because Sir Francis Drake stayed there. Charles II is also linked to the building, and many of his mistresses stayed at the hotel. In 1688, Mary stayed at the hotel after she and her husband William (who later became William III of England) arrived in England from the Netherlands to claim the throne. Edward VII and Cary Grant were also amongst its high-profile guests. Agatha Christie, another guest, changed the name of the hotel to the Royal George for her novel ''Ordeal by Innocence''.〔
The hotel is reputedly haunted by an old stagecoach which draws up to the front door to collect phantom passengers in the night. Carriages served the hotel until 1910. Horse hooves, the opening and shutting of a carriage door and footsteps have been heard by guests. Apart from the stage coach's arrival, sounds of horses clattering on the cobble stones are also heard, particularly during the early morning hours of the autumn season. The story linked to this paranormal phenomenon is that William and Mary were to stay at the Royal Castle Hotel in 1688 but as a storm prevented William from reaching the hotel, he lodged nearby in Torbay. Mary, however, reached the Royal Castle Hotel in a carriage at 2 AM and from that time onwards, the stage has started appearing in paranormal form at the entrance to the hotel. Along with whip cracking and horse whining, an invisible clock chimes twice in a back street of the hotel following the departure of the carriage.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Royal Castle Hotel」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|