PRINCE OF WHEELS!
Charles and Camilla’s very British tour of Cuban capital
BETWEEN the vintage car, the Cuban sunshine and glamorous wife at his side, it was clearly shaping up to be a good day for Prince Charles.
Behind the wheel of a borrowed black MG TD, he and the Duchess of Cornwall certainly made a stylish entrance at a British classic car event in Havana yesterday.
Charles apparently jumped at the chance to test drive the 1953 vehicle – which was lent to the royal couple by local restaurant owner Eduardo Bermudez, 47, who said he trusted it would be ‘in safe hands’.
Charles told onlookers: ‘The one I was driving is the most beautiful car. It has an incredibly powerful accelerator. It is incredibly close to the brake so you have to be careful you don’t press the wrong one.’
His wife, chic in a mint green Anna Valentine dress, needed a little help hopping out of the low car. ‘You try getting out of that elegantly!’ she joked, before remarking of Charles: ‘He’s really rather in his element.’
Meanwhile his father looked similarly at home driving an even more antique mode of transport. Prince Philip was spotted at the helm of a horse- drawn carriage on a public road near the Sandringham Estate yesterday – a month after voluntarily surrendering his driving licence.