{"id":2437905,"date":"2026-05-30T04:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2437905"},"modified":"2026-05-30T04:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:02:17","slug":"top-five-cars-owned-by-the-royal-family-automuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/top-five-cars-owned-by-the-royal-family-automuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Top five: cars owned by the Royal family \u2014 AutoMuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">As we celebrate King\u2019s Birthday weekend, we\u2018re recalling some of the most memorable cars owned by the Royal family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">When one has to drive oneself from one\u2019s palace to one\u2019s castle, one luckily has a fleet of vehicles to use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The British Royal family is known to support British brands but Princess Diana was the first Royal not to own a British car when she bought a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.automuse.co.nz\/news\/why-the-r129-sl-was-the-diana-mercedes\">Mercedes-Benz SL<\/a>. One was not amused by this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The late <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.automuse.co.nz\/news\/top-5-cars-owned-by-queen-elizabeth?rq=Queen\">Her Majesty the Queen<\/a> was a driver and mechanic for the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII, so was handy behind the wheel, and under the bonnet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">We\u2019ve searched for some of the best cars the British Royal family has driven or owned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Here are the top five:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Princess Diana \u2013 Jaguar XJ-SC<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.automuse.co.nz \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we celebrate King\u2019s Birthday weekend, we\u2018re recalling some of the most memorable cars owned by the Royal family. When one has to drive oneself from one\u2019s palace to one\u2019s castle, one luckily has a fleet of vehicles to use. The British Royal family is known to support British brands but Princess Diana was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2437906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2437905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Top-five-cars-owned-by-the-Royal-family-\u2014-AutoMuse.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437907,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437905\/revisions\/2437907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}