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The King George IV was situated at 44 Montpelier Square. This pub closed in 1996 and was demolished the following year.

Source: Richard Lovejoy

When briefly stationed at the nearby Hyde Park Barracks in 1986, this was our local. From what I remember (that period of my 20s is a little vague in places - I blame the air pollution which I was exposed to every night on the way to the pub) the majority of the staff were Antipodean, as was the trend in London at the time. A bunch of us went with some of the Oz/Kiwi staff to see Crocodile Dundee at Leicester Sq Odeon. I was told by soldier friends who were at Hyde Park Bks when the pub shut, that it was bought by a group of local residents who didn't want a pub frequented by soldiers in their square. This may of course be apocryphal.

Simon Coker (November 2020)

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