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flower bouquet. A gala lunch for 200 guests was prepared in
honor of His Imperial and Royal Majesty at the large dining
hall of Grandhotel Pupp. After lunch, Emperor Franz Josef I
rested for a while in the most luxurious hotel suite before
departing in the late afternoon by train.
In 1903, demolition and excavation work began in the
courtyard section of Grandhotel Pupp to create space for
new ancillary buildings and particularly for the construction
of the Ceremonial Hall, known at the time as the Neuer
Café, Konzert und Billardsalon. The imposing structure was
built on the site of the former wooden (and later cast-iron)
coffeehouse in the course of years from 1905 and 1906
for 1,5 million Austrian crowns. The capacity of the large
concert hall was 1,500 persons. The grand opening of the
large Festive Hall took place on 26 May 1906.
In 1907 (on the 24 th and 31 st of August), King Edward VII
of the United Kingdom stayed at Grandhotel Pupp during his
two shorts visits to Carlsbad. On both occasions, His Majesty
came from Marienbad where he was taking a cure and playing
golf. According to a rather humorous story, King Edward VII
allegedly “invented creases” on trousers by mistake. The
story of the King’s torn trousers was the favorite anecdote of
Czech writer and journalist Vladimír Škutina. It is said that the
trouser creases were invented in the following manner:
When King Edward VII of the United Kingdom came to
Carlsbad in 1907, he obviously stayed with the Pupps. In
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the afternoon, before a gala dinner at the Pupp, which he
was to chair, the King had gone for a walk in nearby woods.
While walking, the nobleman tore his trousers and this was,
with a view to the upcoming dinner, rather embarrassing.
To remedy the situation, the King rushed into the nearest
clothes shop in the Old Meadow. His Majesty spotted a stack
of men’s trousers in one of the shelves. Without hesitating,
the No. 1 Englishman swiftly selected new trousers. The
shop keeper, flabbergasted by having such a noble customer,
wanted to iron the wrinkled trousers yet the King rejected
due to lack of time. He put on the wrinkled trousers and
hurried to the Pupp where he gave a speech to the Carlsbad
high society. As the King was speaking, the people of
Carlsbad, the ladies in particular, were confounded when
they noticed bizarre winding creases and lines on the
front and rear of the trousers of the sovereign of proud
Albion. They had never seen anything like that before in
cosmopolitan Carlsbad. None of the present, nevertheless,
dared to ask. The next day, the Carlsbad mayor gave a gala
breakfast at the Pupp in honor of the English king. And lo!
All the Carlsbad gentlemen appeared at the Ceremonial Hall
with more or less successfully creased trousers. When the
King inquired about their rather comical trousers, he was
told that the Carlsbad gentlemen did not want to fall behind
latest British fashion presented by His Majesty himself the
evening before.
Vyzdobený Grandhotel Pupp čeká na svého císaře v roce 1904 I Das geschmückte Pupp erwartet seinen Kaiser im Jahre 1904
Decorated Grandhotel Pupp is expecting its Emperor in 1904
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