The Cádiz businessman Gómez Doreé opened its doors in 1912, celebrating the centenary of the Cádiz Cortes of 1812. Thanks to its sumptuous decoration, exquisite products, attentive service, and nightly concerts, it quickly became the most visited café in the city. Writers, intellectuals, politicians, musicians, and artists made the café a space with a diverse and unique atmosphere. International figures of great renown, such as the famous Cádiz composer Manuel de Falla, also visited, delighting the public with their concerts.
In the 1930s, on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, Café Royalty decided to close its doors. During the postwar years of the 1940s, it was turned into a warehouse and shortly thereafter into a bazaar, beginning its decline and remaining forgotten for the following seven decades.