It’s a club, and it’s in Kingly Court. We got stumped there too, so here’s 10 Thing You Need To Know about the Kingly Club: 

1. The Kingly Club is a private member’s club on Kingly court, located just off uber-trendy Carnaby street in London’s Soho.
   
    
2. The interior of the club features several stunning large
   aquariums built into the walls, so you can pluck prawns out of the tanks and make your own shrimp cocktail any time you feel the need.
   
3. Famous for its cocktails, the house special is known as the Kingly Classic, and contains Polstar apple vodka, elderflower cordial and fresh cucumber topped with Moet & Chandon.
   
4. Kingly Club owner Dezzi McCausland is a man who knows how to treat the A-list: when Tom Cruise visited the club’s Soho branch, a lookalike was employed to lead the press on a wild goose chase, leaving the real star to sip his martini in peace.
5. The Kingly Club also has a sister venue, the Kingly Club St. Martins lane, which is just off Leicester square and incorporates a Japanese restaurant, Kyashii.
6. In the swinging sixties, the club was known as The Pinstripe Club, attracting such luminary icons as Oliver Reed, Steve McQueen, George Best, Richard Harris, Audrey Hepburn, and even Marilyn Monroe.
7. The Pinstripe Club was closed down as a result of the 1963 Profumo scandal, where secretary of state for War John Porfumo was forced to resign over allegations he covered up an affair with Christine Keeler, the mistress of a Russian spy, at the height of the Cold War. The Pinstripe Club was the venue for their fateful first meeting.
8. Kingly Court, which houses the venue, is a stunning three-storey courtyard which contains numerous trendy boutiques and vintage stores, as well as a splendid cupcake bakery. 
   
9. Carnaby street, which provides the main access to the Kingly Club, was a 1960s haunt of mods and hippies, and was renowned for being a great place for star spotting, with icons such as The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones using the area to work, shop and socialise.
   
10. Carnaby street style has been parodied numerous times in popular culture, with a season 15 episode of The Simpsons showing Bart and Lisa wearing mod fashion garb on the street, and Heath Ledger’s Joker outfit the ‘The Dark Knight’ being inspired by Carnaby street mod style.
    

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