Tracy Bond

Tracy Bond is a fictional character in the James Bond film and novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service. To date she is the only cinematic Bond girl to officially marry secret agent Commander James Bond, though Bond would later marry again in John Gardner's Scorpius. In the film version of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Tracy was played by actress Diana Rigg.

Bio

Born Teresa Draco in 1943, she is the only child of Marc-Ange Draco. Marc-Ange is the head of "The Union Corse", a powerful international mafia crime syndicate -- not quite as large as S.P.E.C.T.R.E., but with substantially larger "legal" operations, including Draco Construction. Teresa goes by "Tracy" because she feels "Teresa" is too grand. (As she once said, "Teresa is a saint; I'm known as Tracy.")

Related Topics:
1943 - S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

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Teresa was the only daughter of Marc-Ange Draco and his English-born wife, who had met him while he was hiding out from the authorities in Corsica. Draco's wife died when Teresa was twelve; he then sent her to a boarding school in Switzerland. Deprived of a stable home life, Teresa joined the "jet set", committing "one scandal after another"; when Draco cut off her allowance, Teresa committed "a greater folly" out of spite. She later married Italian Count Giulio di Vicenzo who, during their marriage, managed to get a hold of a large portion of her money before eventually leaving her; he subsequently perished while driving a Maserati in the company of one of his mistresses. During this marriage, Teresa had a child, who later passed away due to spinal meningitis.

Related Topics:
Corsica - Boarding school - Jet set - Italian - Maserati - Spinal meningitis

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Due to her past, Teresa became suicidal until she was saved one day by James Bond while attempting to drown herself in the sea. Her father, Marc-Ange, pleaded with Bond to continue to see Tracy, claiming that their relationship had changed her for the better. Initially Bond refused; however, he later changed his mind when Marc-Ange offered his resources for anything Bond desired. Since the events of Thunderball and the demise of S.P.E.C.T.R.E., Bond had been hunting for Ernst Stavro Blofeld and at one point was willing to retire from MI6 because he felt the hunt was folly and that his services and abilities could be used better. Using Marc-Ange's resources, however, Bond was able to track Blofeld to Switzerland. In return Bond continued to see Tracy and eventually fell in love with her. They would later marry; however, later that same day, Tracy was murdered in a drive by shooting by Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Irma Bunt in retaliation for Bond foiling their plans.

Related Topics:
Suicidal - Thunderball - S.P.E.C.T.R.E. - Ernst Stavro Blofeld - MI6 - Switzerland - Irma Bunt

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