Tracy Bond

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James Bond Character
Tracy Bond
Gender	Female
Age	26
Status	Deceased
Behind the scenes
Portrayed By	Diana Rigg

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.

[edit] Biography

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.")

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.

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.

[edit] Film mentions

The follow up film, Diamonds Are Forever, shows James Bond tracking down Blofeld in the pre-title credits, but it is only assumed that Bond is doing so out of revenge for Tracy's death. She is never mentioned by name in the film.

Subsequent films also rarely mention Tracy or make reference to the fact that Bond was previously married.

• In The Spy Who Loved Me, when Bond meets Anya Amasova in the Mujava bar, she recites facts of his life, including that he had been married once and that his wife was killed. Bond quickly changes the subject; Anya recognizes and comments upon Bond's discomfort in talking about his late wife.
• In For Your Eyes Only, Bond stands at her grave before boarding a helicopter which Blofeld has booby-trapped. It's actually in this sequence where Bond ultimately gets revenge for her murder, by impaling an uncredited Blofeld's wheelchair on one of the helicopter's skids and eventually dropping him (wheelchair and all) down a tall industrial smokestack.
• In Licence to Kill, after Bond refuses to catch the garter of Felix Leiter's new wife, Della, Leiter makes a short, sad reference to the fact that Bond was married "a long time ago". Nothing else is really said on the matter.
• In The World Is Not Enough, Elektra King (whose father has been killed in the pre-credit sequence) asks Bond whether he has ever lost anyone 'that he truly loved'. Bond appears uncomfortable and does not answer the question, continuing with a different line of conversation.