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Did you know the Spirit of Ecstasy was a real person? Baron Montague commission Charles Sykes to create a mascot for his 1909 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost. He had Eleanor Thornton model for the sculpture that would become the Whisper. Eleanor, known as "Thorn" was having a secret love affair with Montague and it allowed him to celebrate their love. Eleanor could not marry Montague because she came from an impoverished family, so they kept it a secret. Around the same time Rolls Royce noticed that mascots were becoming popular, and some were inappropriate, so the decision was to commission a mascot that more aligned with Rolls Royce thinking. Sykes was called on to create the mascot and he used the Whisper as the inspiration and Thorn's appearance was called on again for the sculpture. In 1911 Sykes presented the Spirit of Ecstasy, known by many as the Flying Lady, and today the mascot adorns the hood of every Rolls Royce.

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