Alexandra Charles is the nightclub

Nightclub

A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...

 queen of Sweden. She ran a membership restaurant-discothèque called Alexandra's in central Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 from 1968 to 1988.

Charles today also goes by her late husband's surname of Gustrin but is usually referred to by the surname of her first husband Noel Charles of Barbados

Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

. She chairs a charitable foundation, is noticeably involved in women's health issues and is still a central figure in the public life of her country.

The clientele of her club was all of what Sweden had at the time of social elite, business powers, celebrities and royalty, with regulars such as the ABBA

ABBA

ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...

 quartet, tennis legend Björn Borg

Björn Borg

Björn Rune Borg is a former world no. 1 tennis player from Sweden. Between 1974 and 1981 he won 11 Grand Slam singles titles. He won five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles and six French Open singles titles...

 and King Carl XVI Gustaf. She is of interest to international readers mainly because, for twenty years, she hosted every world famous name that visited Stockholm, in entertainment or other public endeavors, and provided them with at least one night of first class ambiance at her nightclub.

Charles split up with her American business partner Tom Macksey in 1976, after which her place was moved and called Alexandra (without the s). A number of Swedish show business profiles have had their debuts at Alexandra's, and she had the first Swedish version of Wild Side Story

Wild Side Story

Wild Side Story is a stage show that originated as an underground happening in Miami Beach, Florida in 1973. From that year until the end of production in 2004, it was performed hundreds of times in Florida, Sweden, California and Spain....

there.

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