Built by railway baron Charles Melville Hayes, the hotel also has connections to another, more famous 100 year anniversary this spring.

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Eventually Baron Cohen emerges and we take up position on a hotel balcony one sunny afternoon in Cannes.

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In 1918, Mining baron Spencer Penrose converted the Broadmoor Gambling Hall into the hotel it is today, hoping to fuse European elegance with frontier hospitality.

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