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Prince Philip was a committed petrol head, and owned cars including an Aston Martin Lagonda. Above: The Duke sitting behind the wheel of an Aston Martin race car in 1963. ....
The then Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh married in November 1947, after a courtship that had lasted for nearly a decade. Above: At a ball in 1947; and meeting in 1939. ....
To provide the United Kingdom with the monarch she felt it needed, Queen Elizabeth II sacrificed an ordinary life and the other things most of us take for granted. ....
Incognito cars: Royals in under-the-radar cars Credit: Getty Images / Rex Features A rather special Ford Escort Ghia Mk3 is to be auctioned by Reeman Dansie on 29 June. Of course, any such car is now a rare sight, and this example has only 83,000 miles on the clock. Most importantly, its first owner was the Princess of Wales, who was given the Ford as an engagement present by the Prince of Wales in May of 1981. The silver Escort is a further reminder that the Royal Family has a long tradition of favouring mass-produced cars. Diana’s first new car was an Austin Metro L, while in 1988 the future Countess of Wessex drove a 1968 Morris Minor 1000. ....
Prince Philip s love for Land Rovers endured for more than 70 years Billed as the best 4x4 by far, British-built Land Rovers were part and parcel of the Duke of Edinburgh’s life both public and private 17 April 2021 • 7:47am Were two British institutions ever more perfectly matched than the Royal Family and Land Rover? The two have become inextricably linked and it seems fitting that the Duke of Edinburgh’s coffin will be carried through the grounds of Windsor Castle in a modified Land Rover that he designed for the occasion himself. The first Land Rover was sketched in the sand off Anglesey by Rover’s chief engineer Maurice Wilks on a summer holiday in 1947 with his brother Spencer, Rover’s managing director. ....