The future King and Queen of England (Will and Kate, as the global village fondly knows the engaging duo) can rest assured that when not too long ago they stayed in a stately suite at the 126-year old Raffles Hotel in Singapore—the grande dame of all grande dames when it comes to understated elegance and exquisite class in the hospitality industry—their bedroom secrets were more than safe with Filipino butler Alvaro Dungo, one of several Filipinos employed by the famed all-suite hotel to pamper guests (many of whom are rich and famous) in a style that is timeless as it is impossibly contagious.
Alvaro himself, heroically discreet as all good butlers are meant to be, maintained a stiff upper lip when we tried to dig deeper into his encounter with the hugely popular young royals. But apparently Prince William had been given a fulsome heads-up about the Raffles by his grandma (Queen Elizabeth II to you and me) who had parked her royal slippers in a suite there some decades earlier.
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