A luxury Bentley Flying Spur once used by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has turned up on a dealer’s forecourt in South Yorkshire, according to GB News. The car is listed at £125,000, well below the roughly £220,000 it is said to have cost new about six years ago. It has covered only around 7,000 miles in that time.
The six-litre saloon used to carry personalised plates reading “DOY”, a reference to the Duke of York title he no longer uses. Those plates are no longer shown against the car on the DVLA’s records, and nobody has said publicly what happened to them. The original factory blue paint was replaced at his request with Barnato racing green, and the car became a familiar sight in that colour.
The Bentley was seen at several major family occasions. It brought him to the funeral of his father, Prince Philip, in 2021, and he used it again a year later for a granddaughter’s christening. The car is understood to have been sold in 2025, the year he lost his royal titles, first to a specialist Bentley trader and then to Portland Autos in Bawtry, near Doncaster.
Clive Watson founded Portland Autos in 1983 and now runs it with his two sons. He told The Times that the firm had not known about the car’s background when it bought it. Staff noticed an unusual service history, asked some questions, and worked out that the vehicle had come from a royal household. The dealership is now advertising it as an “Ex British Royal Family car” with two previous keepers.
Watson stressed that the purchase went through a third party, not directly through the royal household. He said the connection should help the car sell because it makes the car more interesting and suggests it was carefully maintained. He described it as being in flawless condition. Inside it has cream leather with walnut trim, a panoramic sunroof, heated massage seats and a Breitling clock.
The dealer added that his business has handled several royal cars over the years. He said the royal households tend to look after their vehicles well and are easy to deal with, and joked that they were far better than footballers. The paint colour is named after Diana Barnato Walker, the British aviator whose father, Woolf Barnato, was chairman of Bentley. The late Queen Elizabeth II also owned a Bentley Mulsanne in the same green.
The sale comes as Mountbatten-Windsor’s legal troubles grow. This week he began a judicial review challenging the police searches of his homes on the Sandringham estate and at Royal Lodge in Windsor, which were connected to the Jeffrey Epstein files. A High Court hearing is set for Thursday, and the King has made clear that no private royal money will pay for the challenge.
He was arrested in February, on his 66th birthday, on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The arrest followed court documents alleging that he passed sensitive information to Epstein while serving as the UK’s trade envoy. He was released after 12 hours of questioning while inquiries continue, and he denies any wrongdoing. Thames Valley Police told GB News that it could not comment further while the legal proceedings are under way.