Organisers of Auto Royale have announced that the event’s 2021 debut has been cancelled indefinitely.
The all-new concours d’elegance at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire was originally scheduled for a 2020 launch, before the COVID-19 pandemic pushed it back to 16-18 July 2021.
But yesterday’s announcement that the final easing of lockdown measures in England is being delayed until 19 July has caused the team behind the event to have a rethink.
The news comes less than a month after the full Auto Royale line-up was revealed, featuring 100 classic cars from across the world, including a fresh-from-restoration 1950 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport Coupé by Saoutchik, a colourful class of Maharaja cars, and a 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville that’s starred alongside Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers, and that was returning to the UK for the first time since 1950.
“It is with huge regret that we have decided to cancel this year’s event,” said organiser Paul Mathers. “Months of planning went into making sure that this was going to be something different on the British motoring calendar.
