Famous Guests of the Victoria Palace James Joyce: Irish writer (Septembre 1923 to July 1924) Katherine Mansfield: writer from New Zealand (in the 1920s) Giorgio De Chirico: Italian painter (July and September 1938) H.M. Marie-José, queen of Italy: (several incognito stays in the 1970s) Neil Armstrong: first man to walk on the moon (in the 1970s)