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The Carlton Mitre Hotel stands on the banks of the River Thames, directly opposite Hampton Court Palace. Parts of the hotel date back to 1665 and it was originally a lodging-house for courtiers who could not be accommodated at Hampton Court Palace. It was renovated in 1993.

The hotel has a restaurant, Hamptons, with excellent river views, also a riverside bar/brasserie, which has a secluded terrace and private moorings. It can also offer excellent facilities for business travellers, with a business centre and a range of rooms available for meetings, seminars and conferences.

During a stay here I regularly ‘bumped into’ a gent dressed in Elizabethan attire who Sam informed me was called Edward. This small snippet of information was all that I received, but I was taken by the frequency of Edward’s appearances and by the manner in which he conducted himself – he noticed none of the changes that must have taken place over the long years since he had walked the Earth plane, just carried on as he had over 400 years ago. He was happy.

I suppose that Edward still wanders around the hotel, oblivious to the fact that we are now in the twenty-first century.

Even though he has no idea that time has moved forward and that the Elizabethan era ended long ago, Edward remains very much ‘alive’ today.

The Carlton Mitre Hotel, Hampton Court Road, Hampton Court, London KT8 9BN; Tel:020 8979 9988