Queen Elizabeth II's customised Range Rover is going up for sale. Charles Smalley, a classic car specialist at Iconic Auctioneers, says there is video proof that the Queen "sat in the driver's seat" of the vehicle once when leaving the Royal Windsor Horse Show. The car is expected to sell for around £60,000. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 2004 Range Rover Vogue, obviously previously owned by Her Majesty the Queen,
00:08 ordered with various modifications, simple things such as grab handles to
00:14 the rear to enable her to get in and out easier as she didn't like being helped
00:18 so they were put in for her benefit. The colour was a colour of choice for the
00:23 Royal Family, sidesteps were also another addition for her specification, rear
00:28 switchgear in the back, privacy glass, there were also lights built into the
00:33 front, covert lights for security reasons but generally mechanically all original
00:40 and as it would have left the factory. Value is very difficult with something
00:44 like this, I would think a 2004 Range Rover you would pick up for a few
00:48 thousand pounds, the price wouldn't be a great amount I would think certainly
00:52 way under ten thousand pounds but the provenance and the history behind it
00:57 gets people involved, they love the intrigue and the value could grow
01:01 considerably, we'll find out on the day. We've put a guide price on of fifty to
01:06 sixty thousand pounds but it is a guide, that's only an opinion and we'll see
01:11 what it makes on November the 11th. They will have had access to several
01:16 vehicles but they will have had their choice vehicles and we believe that this
01:22 one moved between London and Balmoral for journeys and they used it in various
01:27 places around the country so it was obviously something that they enjoyed
01:32 using, if it was just used in one location that would sort of signify that
01:36 maybe it wasn't that much of interest but if they used it all the time maybe a
01:40 bit more interest. Oh we've got a video of her driving, yep she was sat in there
01:44 in the driving seat leaving the Royal Windsor Horse Show, yes it was
01:51 definitely her behind the wheel. I think it's just a special special car to find
01:54 something like this which my client did some while ago, there was no Royal
02:01 connection at that time, it was only a maybe, so he's done his homework and he
02:07 took quite some time to find video proof that it is the Queen's and his
02:12 enjoyment is doing that and not necessarily continual ownership, he's
02:17 ticked the box and he's had it for some while so because there is no definitive
02:22 measure that you can say a car was owned by the Royal Family, there is no specific
02:28 names on a logbook as such as we would have, so it's not that easy to find out
02:33 who physically owned them. So some of the modifications that this would have had
02:39 from you for the Royal Family and specifically for the Queen was the dog
02:43 guard, obviously for the corgis and then internally there were the internal grab
02:49 handles and the side steps because Her Majesty the Queen didn't like being
02:55 helped in, she wanted to do it on her own and also switch gear on the window so
02:59 she could control both windows left and right on the vehicle herself. Obviously
03:06 the colour Epsom Green and one other very interesting fact, you can clearly
03:11 see where at one time there would have been a mascot, a Labrador mascot that was
03:15 mounted on the bonnet, that has clearly been removed, although I do understand
03:18 there is a mascot to go with the car. So yeah, very interesting facts and certain
03:24 things that definitely point towards her ownership.