The wedding day wouldn’t have been the same without its cars. Circulation in between the three nodes of the celebration: Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and Clarence House, was done in genuine ‘Royal style’. Not only was each vehicle exceedingly unique, but each enclosed a story enveloped in history that greatly added to the specialness of the day.

The Royal Mews houses the Royal vehicle collection, composed of more than 100 coaches and limousines among other types of road transport and taken out for special events. From this collection, Kate Middleton chose to travel to Westminster Abbey in a distinctive 1977 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI. What’s more is that this Rolls-Royce is the same one that was damaged during last December’s student protests, carrying Prince Charles and Camilla. It is also the same car that the Queen received as a present on her Silver Jubilee in 1977.  Who thought so much baggage could be loaded into a car?

Once married, a Royal couple traditionally comes back in a horse-drawn carriage, whatever the century. But instead of taking Princess Diana’s and Prince Charles’s bridal carriage the ‘Glass Coach’, which was planned to be used in case of rain, William and Kate were transported in an open 1902 State Landau. This coach was made for King Edward VII and it is the same one that carried Prince Charles to his wedding at St Paul’s, and again the same one that Queen Elizabeth II uses to greet heads of state on visit. Although many hoped to see the famous ‘Glass Coach’, the crowds still got more of a century old royal carriage, preserved by a series of kings and queens. This ride, as part of the Queen’s procession, aesthetically took us back in time in a historic moment.

For the finali, the couple switched back to modernity. In his father’s convertible Astan Martin, the Prince himself drove his Princess away with an elegant ‘Just Wed’ tagged at the rear, adding a Hollywood-like twist to the story’s end. What a day and what a choice of transportation: these cars congested with history just created some more.

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