March 11, 2024
ROLLS ROYCE SPIRIT OF ECSTASY
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Im helping my Dad reduce his collection of Automobilia that he has collected over the last 50 years. Postage reflects weight and is at cost. Please see other Automobilia for sale. Flying Lady in very good condition. Signed Charles Sykes on base with date 6-2-11 with RR LTD The Spirit of Ecstasy, also called "Emily", "Silver Lady" or "Flying Lady", was designed by Charles Robinson Sykes and carries with it a story about a secret passion between John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu , (second Lord Montagu of Beaulieu after 1905, a pioneer of the automobile movement, and editor of The Car Illustrated magazine from 1902) and his secret love and the model for the emblem, Eleanor Velasco Thornton . Eleanor was John Walter's secretary, and their love was to remain hidden, limited to their circle of friends, for more than a decade. The reason for the secrecy was Eleanor's impoverished social and economic status, which was an obstacle to their love. John-Walter, succumbing to family pressures, married Lady Cecil Victoria Constance, but the secret love affair continued.Eleanor died on 30 December 1915 when the SS Persia , on which she accompanied Lord Montagu on his journey to India, was torpedoed off Crete by a German submarine, four years after she had been immortalized by her lover.
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