Newly-wed couple drive from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House in car given to Prince Charles by Queen in 1969
Prince William, in a surprise break from the schedule, borrowed his father's 41-year-old open-topped Aston Martin to pootle down the Mall to Clarence House with his new bride.
The car was a 21st birthday present to Prince Charles from his mother in 1969 and, like many middle-aged men's sports cars, it spends most of its life these days in the garage, used only occasionally for jaunts around the country lanes of Gloucestershire and doing only a couple of hundred miles a year.
It has, however, impeccably green credentials in contrast to most 1960 sports cars, having been converted to run on bioethanol fuel – and not just any old bioenthanol but converted from surplus British wine. So it runs on plonk – all part of Charles's green initiatives: his other cars, Jaguars, an Audi and a Range Rover have all been converted to run on used cooking fat.