And for what once seemed like forever, there was The 151 Club (“one five one”), the diviest Chelsea dive of all, affectionately nicknamed the “One Dive One” (and “One Five Slum”) by its Sloane-sleaze regulars.
Adam and Burton were part of the team behind Prince Harry’s other favourite club, Mayfair’s Mahiki, where the likes of Margot Robbie, Benedict Cumberbatch, James Corden, Scarlett Johansson and Paris Hilton drank fruity rum cocktails out of vessels shaped like pirate galleons, and danced like no one was watching to Chic and Abba in the Polynesian-styled basement.
Prince Harry liked to avoid the paparazzi by exiting the 151 commando style, via the fire escape — an SAS-type caper which quickly became a health and safety issue, the 151’s proprietor ordered to spend £1,200 resurfacing the back garden in case the young prince and Taliban-battling soldier slipped and hurt himself during his next late-night manoeuvre.
At 107 King’s Road was the super exclusive Club dell’Aretusa which attracted John Lennon, George Harrison, Sammy Davis Jr, David Bailey, Twiggy and Princess Margaret, a double-page spread in a 1968 edition of the Evening Standard once asking: “Are you one of the beautiful people?
Even the last Sloane standing — the royals’ posher, non-sticky floored refuge Raffles at 287 King’s Road (think Prince William and Kate Middleton, a Chelsy Davy-squiring pre-Meghan Prince Harry etc) — has recently gone to ground too.
