This festival of horse racing takes place in southern England every year and is the nation’s smartest racing event. Its upmarket nature is closely related to it being the Queen’s favourite event, and she’s been here all week accordingly, aged 92; lucky her country place is just up the road at Windsor Castle. She owns several horses competing this year.

Earlier in the week she was joined by grandson Prince Harry and his new wife, Meghan Markle, now styled the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Autocar is mainly about cars, and our main interest at Royal Ascot was the car park, not the horses – here’s our pick of the bunch: