Tuxedo floating nightclubs

The music policy on both ships was contemporary dance, with some specialisations, notably on board Tuxedo Royale, which benefitted from two club areas.

[1][3] According to the Evening Chronicle, in her heyday the Tuxedo Princess was "a celebrity haunt", and she became affectionately known as The Boat by Geordies.

[4][5] While moored in the Tyne, the Tuxedo Princess was host to several famous people including Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, actor Kevin Costner, DJ Noel Edmonds, comedian Freddie Starr, singers Mick Hucknall, Rick Astley, Nik Kershaw and Jason Donovan, pop group Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the cast of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, athlete Daley Thompson, cricketers Ian Botham, Wasim Akram, footballers Kevin Keegan and Paul Gascoigne, and snooker player Steve Davis.

[1] In popular culture, the Tuxedo Princess was used by the BBC to film scenes for a storyline in the Newcastle-based television drama Our Friends in the North, in which the character Terry 'Tosker' Cox (Mark Strong), a Tyneside businessman, opens a floating nightclub on the Tyne.

[8] The quayside area vacated by the Tuxedo Princess was to be redeveloped into a leisure, restaurant and office complex.

[10] In June 2014 businessman Terry Owens started a campaign to restore the vessel from a nearby dry dock, which would cost in the region of £250,000.

[11] In June 2017, the Tuxedo Royale was badly damaged by fire whilst docked on the river[12] In January 2018 it was announced that work would begin on demolition of the Tuxedo Royale to allow the dockside to be used once again for commercial traffic;[13] however it was not until September 2019 that, having been re-floated (following asbestos removal) the vessel was towed to Hartlepool to be scrapped.