Inside London’s elite men-only club rocked by criticism
Britain’s MI6 boss and the cabinet secretary are all members of the historic and star-studded Garrick Club now under fire for refusing to allow women to join.
On a side street in Covent Garden stands an imposing palazzo-style building, strangely out of place amid the burger joints and neon marquees of London’s theatre district. It houses the Garrick Club, one of Britain’s oldest men’s clubs, and on any given weekday, a lunch table in its baronial dining room is one of the hottest tickets in town.
A visitor lucky enough to cadge an invitation from a member might end up in the company of a Supreme Court justice, the master of an Oxford college or the editor of a London newspaper.
