The 114-year-old Empress opened just a few years after the death of Queen Victoria in the B.C. capital that bears her name. Its royal pedigree includes a visit by Queen Elizabeth's parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in 1939.
Afternoon sunshine streams into the Fairmont Empress Hotel's iconic high tea room in Victoria, British Columbia, but cannot lift the sombre mood brought on by the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
“It's different to be here,” she said. “Today is a little bit sad, yes, to remember, to remember Queen Elizabeth.” The hotel history says they shipped their own crockery from England for a formal dinner and left it behind at the Empress as a gift. The same pattern has been used at the hotel since then.
“It is extremely sad as she is, was, a very well-respected member of the Royal Family,” said Morris, who travelled from the English town of Grantham.
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