For sale in Harrogate: Morris Minor - one careful (royal) lady owner
THE Countess of Wessex’s old Morris Minor is to go up for sale at auction in Harrogate.
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.
The Countess, who previously worked in PR, married the Earl of Wessex in 1999.
The vehicle is being sold by Bonhams auction house at a collectors’ motorcars sale at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate on November 12. It is expected to fetch between £5,000 and £7,000.