Although the queen Isabel II from the United Kingdom never had a license, he drove from the Second World War until he died at the age of 96 in September 2022. Since he really liked cars, he could afford to have any and he lived for so long, dozens of models passed through his garage, but some They were more special than others, or at least they were more popular.
It is the case of Jaguar XJ that the Queen owned in the early 2000s. Her Majesty was particularly fond of British cars, such as Jaguars, Land Rovers and Bentleys. Throughout his life, he got behind the wheel of many models of these brands, but the Jaguar XJ that he used as his personal car from 2001 onwards was especially famous because of extra equipment that no one asked for.
Someone decided to unleash their sense of humor with the wrong car
Actually, it is not clear if the protagonist of this story was a Jaguar XJR is a 2001 Daimler Majestic. In any case, they were practically identical cars and the point is that Queen Elizabeth II really liked this model, so, after driving it for a while, she decided to leave it in the hands of Jaguar so that the English company could armor the car with the goal of keeping it longer, but making it safer.
The car was taken to the facilities Coventry of Jaguar and there it began to be dismantled to modify it. For the factory workers it was a relatively routine task, what none of them expected to find were porn magazines hidden in a sealed space in the car and a Nazi swastika painted behind the back seats.
Of course, the Coventry workers informed their superiors of the “little gifts” that the Queen’s Jaguar was hiding and immediately the media they echoedlike The Guardianwhich published the news in mid-June 2001.
Both porn magazines and the swastika were not something of the British Royal House. Those responsible for “equipping” the queen’s Jaguar with these “surprises” were workers from the brand itself, specifically some of the workers who worked on the assembly line when the car was manufactured.
Apparently there was (we don’t know if this will continue) a tradition among Coventry workers of leaving some personal mark on new cars while they were being manufactured, whether by hiding hidden objects in the cars or messages. This is what a Jaguar spokesperson told The Guardian at the time.
Imagen: Bonhams.
“It’s one of those old traditions where people used to write things behind the seat panel of their cars and it would never be discovered unless there was an accident. But this time it wasn’t very fun,” said the Jaguar spokesman. 23 years ago in the British environment.
“I have never understood if it is for good luck or what, but the person knows that the owner of the car will never see it. Obviously in this case it came to light, but normally it never happens. There are hundreds of cars of all brands driving like this “I haven’t dared to go look inside mine,” he added, and justified it by saying that it was a way to fight boredom: “The kids take terrible trouble to fix the car, they’re there all day, right?” What else do they have to do?”
On the other hand, a Coventry worker who also made statements to the same medium, assured that it could have been the work of a worker who did not like the royal family. “There have been a lot of rumors going around. We all thought it was a joke at first, but it seems it was much more serious. I heard there were four people involved.”
Interior of Queen Elizabeth II’s Daimler Majesty. He equipped a special tray on the central armrest for the queen to leave her purse.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman declined to comment on the matter, saying only that: “Anything to do with cars is, of course, a Jaguar matter.” Apparently, there were several dismissals over the matter.
Although it was not a dish of good taste for the British Royal House, Queen Elizabeth II continued to trust Jaguar and had many other models from the brand, such as a Jaguar X-Type with a family bodywork or a Jaguar XK Limousine. What’s more, the state hearse that the United Kingdom uses at the funerals of the British royal family, including that of Elizabeth II, is a Jaguar XK.
Imagen: Bonhams.
What is not known is whether the car that came equipped with a swastika and porn magazines as factory extras is the 2001 Daimler Majestic 4.0 V8 LWB that Queen Elizabeth II owned and sold. Bonhams a few months ago for just over 100,000 pounds (about 120,000 euros at the exchange rate) with barely 26,500 km on its odometer.
Logically, the thing about the swastika and the porn magazines was not specified in the car advertisement and, given the discretion that has always characterized the British Royal House, that information would never transcend.
Source: www.motorpasion.com
