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The nightclub where Prince Harry and Prince William spent some of their wildest nights is set to reopen in central London in the coming months.
While the owner of Boujis’s motto is “everyone is welcome” it appears there is one royal exception.
As reported in the Daily Mail, an old pal of Prince Harry’s and co-owner, Carlo Carello, said: “Everyone is welcome – except Meghan. I don’t like her.”
The co-owner also reminisced about the days the Prince and Princess of Wales used to attend the nightclub in Kensington, adding that they went on “one of their first dates at Boujis”.
Co-owner Jake Parkinson-Smith added: “‘It’s been a home away from home for the royals. It’s been a safe space for them.”
The original Boujis closed in 2016 but the club reopened as B London in 2023.
Boujis 3.0, entitled Gallery, and co-owned by Carello, Parkinson-Smith, Barth Rougier and Steve Manktelow, will open in the coming months.
It is just a stone’s throw from Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s current home in Nottingham Cottage in grounds of Kensington Palace, where Harry and Meghan used to live.
Mr Parkinson-Smith previously recalled in the Daily Mail how he would walk into Boujis on a week night to find US rapper, Missy Elliott, had brought all her celebrity friends along after the MOBO awards.
He explained: “I remember doing a head count and realising there were more A-list stars than staff.”
Other regulars included Prince Harry’s cousin – Princess Beatrice, actor Hugh Grant, and singers Charlotte Church and James Blunt.