Roll like An Actual Prince In This 1960 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud

The beauty of a Rolls-Royce is less about what it can do or how it looks, and more about how it can make you feel. In short, it’ll make you feel like royalty. Some more than others, though.

Take, for example, this 1960 Silver Cloud II. It belonged to an actual prince, and it’s coming up for auction. Which means that if you place the winning bid, you can be rolling like royalty yourself. And for less than you might think.

One of the legendary automaker’s most elegant models, the Silver Cloud was the sister-model to the Bentley S series. It was longer than the Silver Dawn, as wide as the Silver Wraith, and draped in bodywork so timelessly elegant that it put some of the last coachbuilders out of business. Who would want to change anything about this design, after all?

Certainly not Prince Chula of Thailand, that’s for sure. The half-Thai, half-Ukrainian grandson of King Chulalongkorn of Siam was educated in the UK, where he evidently developed a keen sense of Anglophilia. And like his cousin Prince Bira – who remains the only F1 driver ever to come from Thailand – he had a penchant for driving.

Chula was 52 years old when he bought this Rolls-Royce. And as you might expect, he ordered it fully loaded with all the options. So in addition to the then-new 6.2-liter V8, it had air conditioning, power steering and windows, a sunroof, an onboard champagne bar, and a set of matching luggage. Sadly he died only a few years later from cancer, and his Silver Cloud found new owners.

Coys will auction it off at its Chiswick House sale in London later this month, when it expects the car to sell for £65,000-£85,000, or about $87-114k at current exchange rates. That doesn’t seem like a whole lot, considering its pedigree.

“We have had considerable interest in this car from collectors and dealers around the world,” noted Coys CEO Chris Routledge. “This is a great opportunity for someone to acquire a fabulous car which has a unique Royal connection.”