Kate Meyrick in Monte Carlo

Kate Evelyn Ma Meyrick (1875 -1933), an Irish business woman and Queen of the London nightclub scene pictured with her two youngest daughters, Bobbie (left) and Irene in Monte Carlo in 1931. She ran "43", a late-night jazz club at 43 Gerrard Street in Soho, was prosecuted several times for breaching licensing laws and went to prison for bribing policemen to ignore these breaches. Her book Secrets of the 43 was banned on its publication in 1933. Three of her daughters married peers of the realm

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