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10 unusual facts about Lady Godiva


3018 Godiva

It is named after Lady Godiva, the Saxon woman who, legend has it, rode naked through the city of Coventry.

Come Back My Children

Come Back My Children is a compilation album by Fatima Mansions consisting of all eight tracks from Against Nature, along with other early singles and B-sides and covers of "Stigmata" by Ministry and "Lady Godiva's Operation" by The Velvet Underground.

Coventry United F.C.

The Badge features Lady Godiva on a horse in the center of a shield shaped badge.

Doctor in the House

Sir Lancelot, however, has fond memories of his own student days, particularly of the Dean's own youthful indiscretion (persuading a nurse to reenact Lady Godiva's ride).

Godiva Chocolatier

Godiva was founded in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, by Joseph Draps who opened his first boutique in the Grand Place in Brussels under its present name, in honour of the legend of Lady Godiva.

Kingsbury family

This bloodline also includes the well known figure Lady Godiva.

Lady Godiva

There is further description given on the Godiva procession under the sub-article Lady Godiva in popular culture.

If only because of the nudity in the story, its popularity has been maintained, and spread internationally, with many references in modern popular culture.

Lady Godiva's Operation

The person's name is taken from the British legend of Lady Godiva, a noble English lady who rode naked through the streets of Coventry.

Nancy Saunders

To modern viewers, Saunders is known for her roles in several Three Stooges films from the Shemp Howard era, specifically I'm a Monkey's Uncle (and its remake Stone Age Romeos) and as Lady Godiva in The Ghost Talks.


Alex Day

On 1 April 2012, Day released his second single, "Lady Godiva", a cover of the 1966 Peter and Gordon song.

Arthur Shields

His other films include: Little Nellie Kelly, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Fabulous Dorseys, Gallant Journey, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Drums Along the Mohawk, Lady Godiva, National Velvet and The River.

Château Cheval Blanc

Château Cheval Blanc is featured in the Mad Men Season 5 episode, "The Other Woman", when Peggy Olson transforms Michael Ginsberg's ad concept about a leather-jacketed bar patron in London (which the client dislikes) into a Paris-based "Lady Godiva"-like pitch (which the client likes) on the spot.

Coventry Colliery

Named Lady Godiva, it was decommissioned in 1913 but left in place, moved to the Dartmouth Museum in the 1960s.

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross

Despite not being present or significantly different in many early versions, the fine lady has been associated with Queen Elizabeth I, Lady Godiva, and Celia Fiennes, whose brother was William Fiennes, 3rd Viscount Saye and Sele (c. 1641-1698) of Broughton Castle, Banbury, on the grounds that the line should be 'To see a Fiennes lady'.