The all-knowing Google counts 175 five-star hotels in London. The newest of these is the Emory, a glittering space opposite Hyde Park and adjacent to the Berkeley, which opened in 1867 and is also owned by the Maybourne Group, tireless in its pursuit of grandeur.
Equal in exuberance but boundlessly more modern, the Emory is a quiet, tucked-away enclave accessed not by a sweeping front entrance, red-coated doormen either side, but through a glass-fronted, mirrored lobby to the left of the nine-floor building. Mirrors so spanking I walked clean into one.
