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Minervas, among the cheapest cars of highest class, are also used by King Haakon VII of Norway, by the ruling Grand Duchess Charlotte of tiny Luxemburg and by Henry, Prince Consort of the Netherlands. Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands has a Cadillac. So has her daughter Crown Princess Juliana. And so have the Emperor of Japan and the King of Spain, in addition to their Rolls-Royces and Mercedeses. It would, in fact, be hard to name any good make of car which has not been owned at one time or another by King Alfonso of Spain and Prince Louis of Monaco.
President Herbert Hoover has a Lincoln for himself, a Packard for Mrs. Hoover, a Cadillac for his guests. In the Central American countries, Fierce-Arrow is now forging ahead as the official car of the presidents of Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela. Cuba. The Imperial Japanese Household has 25 old Fierce-Arrows and ten new. President Gaston Doumergue of France of course has an official Renault, but this great and justly renowned make is now reduced to claiming — so far as Royalty is concerned — "Dowager Queen Maria Christina of Spain, ""King Manuel of Portugal," and Britain's "Dowager Queen Alexandra." Some day someone will tell the Renault folk that the two dowagers are dead and that Portugal is a republic.
Signor Benito Mussolini personally drives (nearly always at breakneck speed) a bellowing, jouncing, space-annihilating Alpha Romeo.