One of my oldest friends is Billie Edgson. From 1969, he was the doorman of the Clermont Club and Annabel's, the nightclub beneath the Clermont at 44 Berkeley Square, before 25 years at Mark's Club in Charles Street, followed by his current role at 5 Hertford Street.
The Clermont Club was John Aspinall's first casino, which he owned from 1962 to 1972. Among the regulars was Ian Maxwell-Scott, a heavily bespectacled, urbane Old Etonian possessed of
