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M’s loyal secretary Miss
Moneypenny named after a farm in Kent? It would appear more than probable.
And it seems appropriate the Hammonds, the married couple who acted as
housekeepers for M, the head of British Intelligence and 007’s chief, at
his country home ‘Quarterdeck’, were seemingly named after an old Queen
Anne building. Honeychile Rider, Fleming’s Venus-like heroine in the novel
DR. NO (1958), may also have been christened after a farm on the Romney Marsh, a
far cry from the sun soaked laughing waters of a Jamaican beach. And also
on the map a few miles from Sandwich, coincidentally, there’s even a small
village near Staple called Flemings! |
