Throwback to Sir Ladapo Samuel Ademola ll Showstopping Entrance to the Coronation of King George VI

The most fashionable king in the history of the ancient Yoruba Kingdom, Oba Alake of Abeokuta (Egbaland). Oba Sir Ladapo Samuel Ademola II arrives at the coronation of King George VI in 1937 in an exotic Rolls-Royce Phantom II. in London.

Ademola II, son of Alake (Oba) Ademola I, was one of the first traditional rulers of Nigeria to own a car.

King George VI was King of Great Britain from 1936 until his death in 1952.

George VI is also the father of the late Queen of Great Britain, Queen Elizabeth II.