 In September 1917 , a shell exploded in Green Park in close proximity to the Ritz , and according to Lord Ivor Churchill it broke all of the windows to adjacent Wimbourne House . David Lloyd George held a number of secret meetings at the Ritz during the latter half of the war , organised by Sir Basil Zaharoff , and it was at the Ritz that he made the decision to intervene on behalf of Greece against Turkey . The Duke of Marlborough recorded dining at the Ritz ; " I lunched at the Ritz . The whole social world goes there , prices being cheap . All women there from M. Paget to the latest tart . " 
