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Prince Philip’s car becomes Sri Lankan Royal artefact Galle Face Hotel chairman Sanjeev Gardiner (right) and his son Seshaan pose with the 1935 Standard Nine vintage car which is claimed to be owned and the first car of Prince Philip (not pictured) now acquired by the Gardiner family in Colombo – AFP Source:FT AFP: An almost 90-year-old car that once belonged to Britain’s late Prince Philip is now the centrepiece of a seaside museum in Sri Lanka. The Duke of Edinburgh, whose funeral will be on Saturday, was a car aficionado who bought the 1935 Standard Nine for 12 pounds when he was based in Colombo with the British Navy in 1940. “When he came back in the early 1950s, he came and saw the car,” said Sanjeev Gardiner, who has kept the vehicle at his Galle Face Hotel in Colombo. “When he saw the car he said, ‘I hope ...