{"id":2568,"date":"2011-02-16T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:24:21","slug":"spirit-of-ecstacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of Ecstacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Spirit of Ecstasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What does a hood ornament have to do with knitting?  Well, first of all,  it isn’t just any hood ornament; it is the hood ornament on a Rolls-Royce. The picture here is of the ornament on the Queen’s Phantom VI. Now I understand that this figure on the Queen’s car actually curtseys.  I’d have to see the ones on the common-garden-variety Rolls to compare.<\/p>\n

Secondly there is a love story behind the figure. Apparently a certain Lord Montagu (1916) fell in love with Eleanor Velasco Thornton, a model. Well, because of his title, he could not marry her, so when he eventually married, within his class, he paid tribute to “Ellie” by having a silver nymph, cast in her likeness, mounted, as the hood ornament, on one of the most prestigious cars in the world!<\/p>\n

Time passes and we find that the relationship didn’t end with the marriage. Both the Lord and the lady (Ellie) were on a cruise to India when their boat was torpedoed. Ellie was lost at sea; Lord Montagu was rescued. All that remains now is a movie – coming later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Dusk Shawl from Queen Anne’s Lace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Now, the knitting part. When I saw the nymph, the flowing robes, the silver, I thought of lace – well that’s true I am always thinking of lace – but I love the idea of a free spirit, riding around on the hood of a car, with her hair streaming behind, clothed only in a whisper of silk. The image is ethereal and knitted lace transports us to another world.<\/p>\n

Dream in silver and lace and drive a Roll-Royce – or reasonable facsimile \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spirit of Ecstasy What does a hood ornament have to do with knitting?  Well, first of all,  it isn’t just any hood ornament; it is the hood ornament on a Rolls-Royce. The picture here is of the ornament on the Queen’s Phantom VI. Now I understand that this figure on the Queen’s car actually curtseys.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}