Tea parties you won't want to be late for by Maggie O'Sullivan
It was 150 years ago this June that Lewis Carroll’s classic story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was first published. To mark the anniversary you can go to Christ Church college in Oxford and take a guided Alice in Wonderland Meadow Walk. You can buy a facsimile of Carroll’s handwritten version of Alice’s Adventures Underground (as it was originally called) at Alice’s Shop, across the road from the college. Or you can head for the British Library in London to view the real thing. And when you’ve done all that, you can have a themed tea. Here are four of our favourites.
Cedar Court Grand Hotel & Spa, York
The hotel will be holding a Mad Hatter’s Afternoon Tea Party (pictured above) once a month throughout the year (you can also book a tea party as a private event). Teas start with an Arrival ‘Drink Me’ Potion at 3pm, and finish at 4.30pm, when guests are invited to ‘Disappear down the rabbit hole’.