The café was the scene of a famous meeting on 24 March 1895, when Frank Harris advised Oscar Wilde to drop his charge of criminal libel against the Marquess of Queensberry, father of Alfred Douglas.
Rajput prince Ankit, candidate for the 2016 London Mayoral elections and leader of the One Love Party,[REF] made claim to titles of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir in a private coronation at Hotel Café Royal in March 2015 [REF].