Godiva Chocolatier
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Godiva Chocolatier is a multinational chocolate maker owned by Turkish conglomerate Yıldız Holding.
Lady Godiva, 1897 painting by John Collier
Godiva Golden Box 24 pralinen
A Hong Kong branch
A Godiva store in North America
Lady Godiva
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Lady Godiva, in Old English Gōdgifu, was a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who is relatively well documented as the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and a patron of various churches and monasteries.
Godiva Chocolatier
…In 1945, the Draps began using the brand name “Godiva.” The name was an idea from Joseph Draps' wife Gabrielle, in reference to the English noblewoman Lady Godiva. The brothers opened their first shop shortly afterward in the Brussels municipality of Koekelberg (on Boulevard Léopold II). Less than 6 months later…
Lady Godiva: Edmund Blair Leighton depicts her moment of decision (1892)
Lady Godiva, a statue by Sir William Reid Dick unveiled in 1949 in Broadgate, Coventry, a £20,000 gift from W. H. Bassett-Green, a Coventrian. (pictured in 2011)
19th-century equestrian statue of the legendary ride, by John Thomas, Maidstone Museum, Kent