Whicker
Le Touquet, on the northern coast of France, went flying into fashion at the start of the Air Age in the twenties. That is when “Bright Young Things”- and "Gay Old Ones” crossed the channel to the bright lights of Le Touquet’s casino, then the biggest money-earner in France. A documentary visits the Royal Picardy, which in those davs was a fairy-tale fortress which was the place to be, and called itself “The Most Beautiful Hotel In The World.” Alan Whicker recalls those frantic days, the Picardy’s remarkable wartime role, and post-war rebirth, when it recaptured some of its former glory. “The Most Beautiful Hotel In The World,” a documentary from Yorkshire Television, screens from CHTV3 on Sunday.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33032, 27 September 1972, Page 4
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