The British Connection

STRONG British connections with Mariánské Lázně go back to at least 1897 when the future Edward VII first visited to treat what one local website calls his "excessive obesity."

In 1906 he used the town as a base for conducting informal talks with Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph to try to detach the latter from his alliance with Germany.

The monarchs met in sunnier times

The king is credited with founding Bohemia's first golf course, which is about a three-mile walk from the centre of Mariánské Lázně.
Despite Czechia having been communist when part of Czechoslovakia, and now a republic, the course owners still use the English-language name, Royal Golf Club, and hold an annual tournament for the Czech RAF Golf Trophy.

Poster in town advertising an upcoming lecture about men from Mariánské Lázně and the surrounding region who fought with the RAF in WW2 

According to lecturer Daniel Švec, some of the pilots and other crewmen were native-German speakers who nevertheless fought against Nazi Germany.