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Several monarchs have used golden coaches. These horse-drawn coaches were made of wood and covered with gold leaf, a solid golden coach would be very expensive and so heavy that it would be a practical impossibility.
Although a gilded coach with or without painted panels was a sign of high social and governmental status, the position of the occupants of the coach determines the number of horses that draw the vehicle. Monarchs have the right to be drawn by eight horses. A prince of the blood royal uses six horses, a nobleman four.