King Charles Club

The King Charles Club (KCC) is a dining society which recruits members exclusively from amongst St John's College, Oxford students.

[citation needed] A possibly apocryphal story relating to these times is that the King treated Prince Rupert and 11 of his closest lieutenants to an especially opulent meal.

[6][7] "Invitation-only" by nature, the King Charles Club recruits solely from amongst members of St John's College.

[3][7] The incongruity of an ancient dining society meeting in Stringfellows has resulted in popular commentary, including an editorial comment in The Daily Telegraph in February 2001.

[9] Other present or former members include Canadian Nobel Prize–winning politician Lester Pearson,[4] and author and clergyman Fergus Butler-Gallie.

Statue of King Charles I in Canterbury Quad at St John's - often a focus of the Club's activities