From opera to crocodiles: the family behind the Strand’s Savoy empire

For more than three generations, the D’Oyly Carte family ran the Savoy Theatre and Hotel, becoming one of Victorian Britain’s biggest success stories. Olivia Williams, the author of a new book chronicling the family, speaks to Grace Wood about impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte and his partnership with Gilbert and Sullivan, and the Hollywood royalty who became regulars at the hotel