Niels van Roij looks every inch the English gentleman. The Dutch-born designer is wearing an immaculately cut tweed suit with leather-lined pockets, topped off with a green woolen tie. Only later do I realise that identical fabrics were used to trim the Rolls-Royce waiting outside. “ I have a suit created to celebrate each car, using the same cloth fabric and leather,” explains van Roij. “Like a bespoke car, a bespoke suit fits its owner perfectly.”

What began life as a 1981 Rolls-Royce Corniche called Henry is now ‘Henry II’ – the latest custom creation from Niels van Roij Design. With an entirely new body from the B-pillars backwards, it has gone from a stately coupe to a sleek shooting brake.

The transformation took two-and-a-half years and 7,000 hours of work, but the result is a

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