The Prince's Club was a socially exclusive gentlemen's multisports club in London, England. The original 'Prince's Club' was founded in 1853 in Chelsea by George and James Prince and its main sports were rackets and real tennis. Cricket, croquet and lawn tennis were also played. After most of its ground was lost to building developments it closed in 1887. Its successor, the 'New Prince's Club', located in Knightsbridge, opened in 1888 and kept its focus on rackets and real tennis, but no longer had any outdoor sports. In 1896 the Prince's Skating Club was opened. The Prince's Club was in operation until the 1940s.
Opening of the New Prince's Club, Knightsbridge, by the Prince of Wales, showing the tennis match between Mr Alfred Lyttelton and C Saunders
The Old Prince's Club in 1857 with view of a rackets court
Rackets or racquets is an indoor racket sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. It is infrequently called "hard rackets" to distinguish it from the related sport of squash.
R. P. Keigwin (right) with AEJ Collins the college's rackets team at Clifton College c. 1902
Boys hitting up outside the Harrow Old School, c. 1795
A Toff playing with the rabble in prison
Rackets being played at a prison—where the game developed
