Alexandra Club

[3] Membership of the club was only available to women eligible to attend the Queen's Drawing Rooms.

[1] Amy Levy in her 1888 novel, The Romance of a Shop considered the merits of the Alexandra Club against other clubs for women and concluded that the phrase "who has been or who would probably be precluded from Her Majesty's Drawing Rooms" to be "full of the sound and fury of exclusiveness and signifying not so much after all".

[1] The popularity of the club led to disputes between members over the best tables those in which according to the historian Anne de Courcy, the "lunchers could be viewed in all their glory from the street".

The Prince of Wales, visiting his wife, Princess Alexandra, was once denied entrance by the footman of the club.

The prince's satisfaction over this caused him amusement and led him to say that the club was entitled to bear his wife's name as a result.