Piers Gaveston Society

Piers Gaveston Society

The Piers Gaveston Society is a highly exclusive secret dining club at the University of Oxford with membership limited to 12 undergraduates. It is named in honour of Piers Gaveston, favourite and supposed lover of King Edward II of England. Its members have a reputation for indulging in bizarre entertainments and sexual excess. Traditionally the society will organise very secret bacchanalian parties for hundreds of friends, who are whisked away to secret locations (usually grand country mansions) to enjoy a night of Bollinger champagne, beluga caviar, multitudinous illegal drugs, and public copulation. [ [http://members.lycos.co.uk/oxfordclubs/main.html Oxford Dining Societies ] ] Words most often associated with this society are "decadence" and "debauchery." [(2 May 2006) [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/05/wfrat05.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/05/ixworld.html Daily Telegraph] ]

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* [http://members.lycos.co.uk/oxfordclubs/main.html Oxford Clubs]

* [http://dafjones.thirdlight.com/viewsmartfolder.tlx?sfid=46943 Photographs by Dafydd Jones]


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