The Spirit of Ecstasy

is certainly the most attractive and probably the best known motor car mascot in the world.  Designed by
Charles Robinson Sykes, she has adorned the radiators of Rolls-Royce motor cars since 1911 and concealed a hidden
passion. This marvellous mascot was modelled after a woman who had bewitching beauty, intellect and esprit -
but not the social status which might have permitted her to marry the man with whom she had fallen in love.