Autumn takes the high roads with some style
PETER Phillips’s estranged wife, Autumn Kelly, is enjoying a very racy weekend.
I hear that Autumn, 42, who separated from the Queen’s grandson in February, is driving round the Highlands of Scotland with a group of girlfriends in hugely expensive supercars.
They include the first new Bentley Bentayga out of the factory, worth more than £150,000, not one but two Ferrari Portofinos (£170,000 each), a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ 63 Roadster (£388,000), a McLaren GT (£165,000) and a Mercedes AMG Gt R Premium (£150,000).
One of Autumn’s friends, the artist and illustrator Anna-Louise Felstead, shared this photograph of three of them cosying up together in a hotel bed en route to Inverness.
Anna-Louise made clear that the pandemic wouldn’t stop their partying, trilling: ‘10pm curfews are so dull.’
Let’s hope that Autumn and her partyhearty pals don’t drive into trouble. The 516-mile journey along the North Coast 500 — Scotland’s answer to Route 66 in the U.S. — has seen more than 50 drivers caught in a crackdown on traffic offences over two recent weekends.
Since lockdown was lifted there have been complaints from locals around the route of problems involving speeding cars, convoys of clogging motor homes, poor driving and dirty camping.
Autumn’s trip couldn’t be more different than the Scottish holidays favoured by her mother-in-law. Princess Anne enjoys going round the West coast aboard the Northern Lighthouse Board vessel Pharos in her quest to ‘bag’, or see, all 206 of the region’s lighthouses.