‘The Great Eight Phantoms’, a Rolls-Royce Exhibition, will gather together the greatest Phantoms from the last 92 years. Held on July 27 in Mayfair, London, the Exhibition will also welcome the next generation of this most celebrated luxury item.
From its debut in 1925, a Rolls-Royce Phantom has been the conveyance of choice for the world’s most influential and powerful men and women. It stood as sentinel, silent witness to history’s most defining moments, from treaty signings to occasions of state and the events that have defined the world we live in today.
These include The Beatles collecting their honours at Buckingham Palace, Field-Marshal Montgomery driving Churchill and Eisenhower, and numerous global superstars collecting their Oscars.
Phantoms that have been owned by the great and the good will return from around the globe to Rolls-Royce’s spiritual home in Mayfair, London – the global home of luxury. This will be a never-to-be repeated event, which will welcome the arrival of the eighth and most modern generation of ‘The Best Car in the World’, the new Phantom.
In a series of updates over the next eight weeks, Rolls-Royce will reveal which famous Phantoms will travel to London for the Exhibition, an occasion that promises to write yet another chapter in Phantom’s remarkable history.
The first of these iconic stories is about ‘The Fred Astaire Phantom I’, which is loaned to the Exhibition by its owner, the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles.