An Emirati businessman is selling a Mayfair townhouse with connections to one of the world’s best-known plays.
Half Moon Street is now one of the most prestigious streets in London, a stone’s throw from Piccadilly, the Ritz and Green Park, but in the 19th century it was a much more raucous, bohemian location, popular with people connected to the arts and theatre and named after its public house.
Number 14 was used for bachelors’ lodgings, which were frequented by renowned playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and inspired his play The Importance of Being Earnest.
It is now a grand townhouse for sale with an asking price of £14 million ($18.7 million).
The Emirati vend
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