The first of the Regent Hotel's famous set of sporting visitors stayed at the hotel on 8 April 1882. This group of aristocratic men had held a few other meetings around the county and had formed a cricket team. It was on this date however that Warwickshire County Cricket Club formally came into existence. In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, according to Billy Wright's autobiography "Captain of England" the England national football team used to meet before they travelled to away matches abroad. More recently the cast and crew of the British comedy "Keeping Up Appearances" including Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift and Geoffrey Hughes stayed at the hotel whilst filming in Leamington.