1988: We've quite admired the Princess's car choices: like her clothes, they always seem to epitomise the spirit of the particular period in time, and none more so than this brutishly capable Ford Sierra Sapphire Cosworth at the high water mark of Britain's Thatcher era.

She is driving alongside the police detective Ken Wharfe, who would later write a controversial book about his time guarding the princess. This particular car is sadly no longer with us, records suggest.

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