Queen Elizabeth II was the only person in the United Kingdom who was legally allowed to drive a car without ever holding a driver's license or having a license plate on her state vehicles.

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Queen Elizabeth II was the only person in the United Kingdom who was legally allowed to drive a car without ever holding a driver's license or having a license plate on her state vehicles. Because all British licenses are issued in the monarch's name, it was considered legally redundant for her to issue a driving permit to herself. She learned to drive during World War II while serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service and routinely terrified visiting dignitaries by aggressively speeding her Land Rover around her Scottish estate. It must be nice to dodge all the mind-numbing bureaucracy of the DMV simply by invoking your divine right to rule and aggressively tailgating foreign prime ministers on narrow country roads