Million pound car auction returns to Harrogate

Up to £1million of motoring exotica could be sold at auction in Harrogate this week.
By The Newsroom
Published 10th Nov 2014, 17:41 BST
Undated handout photo issued by Bonham's of the Morris Minor that once belonged to the Countess of the Wessex which is expected to fetch £5,000, when it sold by the auction house at a collectors' motorcars sale at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate on November 12 (s).Undated handout photo issued by Bonham's of the Morris Minor that once belonged to the Countess of the Wessex which is expected to fetch £5,000, when it sold by the auction house at a collectors' motorcars sale at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate on November 12 (s).
Undated handout photo issued by Bonham's of the Morris Minor that once belonged to the Countess of the Wessex which is expected to fetch £5,000, when it sold by the auction house at a collectors' motorcars sale at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate on November 12 (s).

The Countess of Wessex’s old Morris Minor is among the cars up for auction at the Bonhams event at the Great Yorkshire Showground.

Sophie’s first car - a maroon 1968 Morris Minor 1000 Saloon - was bought for her in 1988 by her then boyfriend Jeremy Barkley when she was known as Sophie Rhys-Jones.

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The Countess, who previously worked in PR, married the Earl of Wessex in 1999.

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The vehicle is being sold by Bonhams auction house at a collectors’ motorcars sale on November 12. It is expected to fetch between £5,000 and £7,000.

The auction raised over £1million in each year at the 2012 and 2013 events.

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