The Queen's Rolls‑Royce could be yours for £2million

Royal star of the show is the Hooper-bodied State Landaulet that lived in the Royal Mews between 1959 and 2002 and which Bonhams says accompanied the Queen on many overseas tours.

The car was originally built to celebrate Rolls-Royce’s Golden Jubilee in 1954. Looking very stately in traditional claret and black, it is the twin of the car used by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on her wedding day earlier this year.

Rolls-Royce wasn’t originally going to build a Phantom IV but the Duke of Edinburgh was so impressed by a prototype he ordered one. Rolls-Royce went on to build 18 Phantom IVs, all bodied by a variety of coachbuilders and all destined for royalty and heads of state around the world. Apart from the British royal family, customers included the Shah of Iran, King Faisal, the Aga Khan and General Franco. Sixteen of the cars are known to exist today.

And the price for such royal splendour? Bonhams expects the ex-Royal Household car to fetch up to £2 million.

Slightly less, at £1-1.5m, is the 1960 Rolls-Royce Phantom V ‘High Roof’ State Limousine with coachwork by Park Ward, another of HM The Queen’s old motors. The car used to be transported on various royal visits on the Royal Yacht Britannia, where it remains on display at the shup’s dock in Leith, Edinburgh.

Other Rolls-Royces for sale from what Bonhams calls the Heritage Fleet are:

• 1985 Rolls-Royce Centenary Silver Spur Saloon (£80-100,000), the 100,000th Rolls-Royce built and used by HRH Diana, Princess of Wales.
• 2002 Rolls-Royce Corniche Convertible, the last Rolls-Royce built at the Crewe factory and 229 miles from new (£180-220,000).
• 2002 Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph Park Ward long wheelbase saloon (£70-110,000), the final Rolls-Royce built by Park Ward and 85 miles from new.
• 2002 Rolls-Royce Seraph Saloon, the last Silver Seraph produced (£70,000-100,000) and only 128 miles from new.
• 1995 Rolls-Royce Corniche Convertible IV, the last Corniche IV built (£200-250,000) and 1160 miles from new.
• 1979 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI Limousine with coachwork by Mulliner Park Ward, as used by the Royal Household (£400-600,000).

And for the true RR fan, the perfect numberplates: both RR1 and RRM 1 are included in the auction.

“Rolls-Royce motor cars have been present at countless historic events in recent British history, and the Heritage Fleet encapsulates the most significant models produced by the marque,” said Bonhams co-chairman Malcolm Barber.

Images courtesy of Bonhams.