During her uninhibited youth Princess Margaret considered it her second home.
Although Prince Philip earned more attention from a single night there, one which he danced away not with his wife, then Princess Elizabeth, but actress Pat Kirkwood, whose legs one admirer described as ‘the eighth wonder of the world’.
Since then, Les Ambassadeurs, the most opulent of clubs in London’s Mayfair, has never faded from the spotlight, whether as the scene of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh’s final party before their divorce.
Or where Sir Philip Green and fellow retail tycoon Mike Ashley played the tables in the 1990s.
But the latest chapter in the history of Les A, as it’s invariably known, is rather uglier. Indeed, I can disclose…