Today Saturday, the King and Queen participated in the veteran car competition The King's Rally on the island of Öland. The competition was a gift founded for the King's 50th birthday in 1996, after 220 donors gave the King an old Volvo PV 60 1946, and the first King's Rally was held in 1997.
126 cars participated, and of them - 14 were Rolls Royces, 10 Jaguars and 4 Ferrari. There were also some rarer and older cars, like the Iso Grifo 7L from 1970, Maserati Indy America -72, Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire -53, Buick Special -37 and an MG J2 Sport -32. The competition is only open to donors, and this year two high profiles couples - the President of AB Volvo and CEO of the Volvo Group, Leif Johansson, and his wife Eva, who drove a Volvo 164 1974, and businessman Olof Stenhammar and his wife Inger who drove a Pontiac GTO -66 that they had borrowed from the King.
A very special feature this year was the the only remaining "white Bernadotte bus", one of those used by
Count Folke Bernadotte to save people from concentration camps during Hitler's regime, was present.
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