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Tsar Nicholas II's Custom 1914 Rolls-Royce for Sale at $7 Million

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Wealth

A royal purple 1914 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost that's said to have belonged to Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, is being offered for sale in Germany via global online luxury marketplace JamesList for about $7 million. In the 1920s the custom-made car, which features nickel plated fittings, a speaking tube for communicating with the chauffeur and coachwork by Barker, found its way into the collection of circus impresario John Ringling of Ringling Bros. at Ca d'Zan, his famous 30 room Venetian mansion in Sarasota, Florida. After being displayed in a classic car museum next to Adolph Hitler's Mercedes for a spell, at some point it was acquired by a German collector who kept it in an underground bunker from which it was recently unearthed. The nearly century-old Rolls, made just 10 years after Henry Royce built his very first car, offers not only a royal pedigree but is an important piece of automotive history it its own right.

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Wardrobe Of The Tsars On Display In London

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

London's Victoria & Albert Museum is currently hosting a rather decadent exhibition, of luxury lost called the Magnificence of the Tsars. The exhibit spans a period of almost two centuries from the early 1700s focusing on the dress and uniforms of Emperors and the Russian Court with highlights like the elaborate coronation robes of Paul l, Nicholas l and Alexanders l, ll and lll. The exhibit is curated and mounted by the Moscow Kremlin Museums and shows men's Russian fashion as it is rarely seen.

Located near the museum, the five-star Egerton hotel, has put together a V&A Tsars package to coincide with the exhibition. The V&A Tsars package includes a two-night stay, English breakfast, exhibition tickets to the V& A including exclusive access and use of the elegant Members' Lounge, an ice cold vodka martini served in frozen glasses accompanied by caviar blinis one evening of your stay and afternoon Tea one day and a glass of pink champagne. The package starts at £349 per room per night.

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