Cops called in as women ‘invade’ William’s club
THE strangest invasion took place last week at White’s, Britain’s oldest gentlemen’s club, when pranksters smuggled in a woman in a luggage trunk before being promptly ejected.
The police were called to the Piccadilly club, I can reveal, after BBC prankster Heydon Prowse, who infamously once tricked Theresa May’s Downing Street staff, entered with two women and a fellow prankster, Nimrod Kamer. They were not difficult to spot at the ties-must-be-worn establishment. One of the women wore an orange boiler suit while the other leapt out of the trunk, also not wearing a tie.
They were instantly asked by White’s staff to leave and after they did Prowse was issued by the police with a community protection notice under anti-social behaviour laws.
The provocateurs aimed to cause maximum disruption at a time when all attention was on another men-only establishment the now-notorious Presidents Club. Prowse was making a point about women being banned but, as one member pointed out, the Queen has famously dined there.
It is, in fact, a favourite relaxation spot for senior Royals – Prince Charles held his stag night at White’s and Princes William and Harry are also members.
One member tells me: ‘These cheap tricksters were politely ejected, somewhat effortlessly from what I hear, and in a far more gentlemanly manner than they deserved after being asked to leave a private establishment to which they had not been invited.’
The women were actress Jess-Luisa Flynn and documentary maker Gemma Perlin, who said of their abrupt exit: ‘They seemed horrified to have their all-male safe-space infiltrated by a woman who isn’t a waitress.’
White’s declined to comment on Kamer’s claims that security staff tried to wrestle camera phones from the intruders’ hands.
What would former Prime Ministers including Robert Walpole, Robert Peel and David Cameron – all once White’s members, though the latter resigned before he entered Downing Street – think of such a scene?