Drive: Rear wheel drive
Number of cylinders: 8
Engine capacity: 6.230 cc
Number of owners: 1

Lady Beaverbrook's Rolls- Royce Phantom VI

On the 15 January 1970, an order was placed via Mead Of Maidenhead Limited, to supply a

Rolls- Royce Phantom VI, fitted with an enclosed Limousine body by H J Mulliner/Park Ward. The order

(CP1714) specified that the Phantom should be fitted with fog lamps, full width occasional seats, front

and rear safety belts, and Dunlop tyres. A cocktail cabinet and Sundym glass were not required.

The car's paintwork was Astrakhan, with Bridge Of Weir green hide and headlining, and dark brown

carpets – an unusual choice perhaps, but then this 'chocolate-and-lime' colour scheme was well known

as the horse racing colours of the Phantom's flamboyant new owner, Lady Beaverbrook. PRH4597 was

duly delivered on 28 April 1970. The sales invoice reveals that this elegant and stately Rolls-Royce

cost a shade over £11,580.00 - an enormous sum of money at the time, but drop in the ocean compared to the

staggering amounts that Lady Beaverbrook gave away during her incredible lifetime

Lady Beaverbrook kept the car for three decades, and following her death, it was donated to the

National Motor Museum at Beaulieu in 1999, where this regal and imposing Rolls-Royce was admired by

visitors for the next sixteen years. To raise funds for the museum, it was auctioned by Bonhams in

December 2015. The sales catalogue described the Phantom VI as being in need of re-commissioning

and some tender loving care, something that Christofor would appreciate, having nursed two husbands

through serious illness.

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