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The Legacy: Charles Rolls and ‘the best cars in the world’
Tragically killed at 32, Charles Rolls accomplished plenty in his short life, including founding Rolls-Royce.
‘Dirty Rolls!’ the Etonians called him, but they won’t be laughing now.
Charles Stewart Rolls (1877–1910), son of Lord and Lady Llangattock of The Hendre, the grand Victorian estate of Monmouthshire, Wales, developed an enthusiasm for ‘tinkering’ with engines when at Eton and, in 1895, he enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, to study mechanical engineering and applied science.
At 18, Rolls travelled to Paris to buy his first car, spending £225 on a Peugeot Phaeton.
It was the first motorcar in Cambridge and one of the first three to be owned in Wales — when Monmouth townsfolk heard he was driving home, they waited two days and nights to glimpse the car crossing the Monnow bridge.
The first driving excursion of the Duke and Duchess of York, later George V and Queen M