Prince Albert’s Wedding Can a Unique Custom Lexus LS600hL Landaulet

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His Serene Highness, Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco, is getting married. As any self-respecting hereditary head of state’s nuptials would, Albert’s wedding to South African Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock requires a conveyance a commoner simply can’t get his hands on.

As a progressive European, however, Albert wants to break with the Hispano-Suizas, Bugatti Royales, and all-too-richy-rich pedestrian Rollers. Albert, friends, is rolling in a Lexus. An LS600hL, to be exact, one customized by Belgian coachworks Carat Duchatelet.

Think of it as a Landaulet as conceived by George Barris. Albert and Carlene can ride in climate-controlled comfort beneath a polycarbonate bubble sourced from a French aerospace supplier, although the dome is removable, too. The car was largely disassembled prior to the top’s installation and treated to a water-based midnight blue paint job before final reassembly under the watchful eye of Belgian Lexus engineers. Who knew there were Belgian Lexus engineers? We like to imagine them as Trappist poindexters, relentlessly pursuing the perfect pint in their off hours. We also like to imagine that they’re all bald. Thanks to the efforts of those folks—and because Monaco’s a tiny slip of a place—the royal pair will be able to complete most of their tour of the principality on electric power. We just want to see it take the Casino turn at speed.

Davey G. Johnson 25 Jun, 2011

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