Harrod's

A temple to shopping, Harrod’s is a spectacle of excess.  The employees are better-dressed than most of the customers.  The food court alone is worth the visit.  Most memorable (to me) is the Egyptian Escalator Hall, which is decorated as if you were inside an Egyptian tomb as you go up and down the escalators. You know those cutaway diagrams of the pyramids that show the long diagonal tunnels?  Clearly they were for escalators, where you would stand on a log, and a dozen slaves would roll you up the tunnel.

At the very bottom of the Egyptian escalator is the “Dodi and Diana” memorial, put there because the previous owner of Harrah’s is the father of Dodi Al-Fayed, Diana’s last ‘companion,’  I tried to take a picture of this, but my camera has a special chip that prevents it from taking pictures of The Most Tasteless Things in the World. 

Footnote:  In the UK, it is sufficient to refer to "Diana" and everyone knows who you are talking about.  The other acceptable reference is "Diana, Princess of Wales"; the name"Princess Diana" is never used, because you can only have the title Prince or Princess in front of your name if you are born with it (as a direct descendent of a monarch), or if it is conferred upon you by the monarch.  They take their titles very seriously here.