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DRIVE TIME

I’LL CONFESS: I’VE always wanted to know how it feels to be one of the nobility. And as I lounge in the leather backseat of a Rolls-Royce Phantom—the model that conveyed Meghan Markle to her wedding—with a chauffeur at the wheel, I’m getting my first taste. Our destination? The Goodwood Estate in southeastern England, home to Charles Gordon-Lennox, the car-loving 11th Duke of Richmond and sixth Duke of Gordon—and to the Rolls-Royce manufacturing center, birthplace of the Phantom.

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