Royal Themed Number Plate 500,000 Reg

LOVE IS in the air for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle but could some of it rub off on wealthy drivers who might fancy pairing up with a royal-themed private number plate?

Fitted to a bespoke British 4×4 built to celebrate the royal wedding, ‘4 HRH’ is being advertised for £269,999 but its owner hopes that the growing hysteria around Harry and Meghan could see it sell for a record-breaking sum of more than £500,000.

Custom car kings, Kahn Design, have created a special edition Chelsea Truck Company Flying Huntsman version of the Land Rover Defender.

The four-seat, four-wheel drive Flying Huntsman features a regal-red, leather-lined interior and is available to buy separately from the number plate, for £79,999.

Company founder, Afzal Kahn, 44, said: “As a proud Englishman, this is our way of wishing Prince Harry and Meghan Markle many happy years together.”

The most paid for a private registration in Britain was more than half a million pounds, after John Collins, a dealer of classic Ferraris, bought ’25 0′ to fit to a rare, £10m Ferrari 250 GT SWB, in 2014.

How close a series of letters or numbers are to a real name of word: if the match quality is high (and the numbers and letters are very convincing in making a popular word), the value of the registration plate will be higher. This means that a match like 5IMON, for the name Simon, will be worth a lot more than a more obscure set of letters and numbers that are not as convincing a match, such as S17 MMM for the name Sam.

The style of the plate: this means establishing if it is a new-style plate, an older-style format or if it is dateless or Irish, for instance. Other options are that it is a prefix-style plate or a suffix-style plate. New-style number plates, which have been produced since 2001, tend to be the least valuable because they are a bit less appealing to some collectors, plus the rule about not having plates that are newer than your car can also come into play, putting people off from buying a newer-style plate for their older car. Prefix-style number plates, which were in production between 1983 and 2001 can be more popular as more vehicles are entitled to have those licence numbers, and they may have fewer characters in total. Suffix-style plates, issued from 1963 to 1983 are relatively rare, which means they can attract higher prices than prefix-style plates and newer designs. Dateless number plates, also known as cherished number plates, were produced between 1903 and 1963 and are nearly always the most valuable number plate configurations; they have fewer digits and their dateless nature means that people can hide the age of their car. Irish number plates are similar to dateless number plates, especially because they don’t have a year identifier. They also tend to be cheaper than other types of vehicle registration plates.

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