Sir Rocco Forte: 'I still haven't got to Paris...and I want to try New York' | independent.co.uk

He lost one empire to Granada, but now hotel magnate Rocco is well on the way to building another. Brown's Hotel in Mayfair, where Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book, to see the current owner Sir Rocco Forte. The sleek interior is a very different setting to the last time I interviewed him, in January 1995 on the occasion of his 50th birthday. He had just been knighted and had not long taken full control of the family business.