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For Your Eyes Only IAN FLEMING AND JAMES BOND

Thursday 17th April 2008
I was also kindly invited to attend the private view the following evening that was mostly attended by corporate event organisers, all potential clients, as The Imperial War Museum makes a wonderfully impressive venue in which to hold all kinds of special themed events. Lieutenant General Sir Christopher Wallace KBE DL, the Deputy Chairman of the Trustees of The Imperial War Museum opened the evening’s proceedings with a concise talk about the museum’s ongoing fundraising objectives and how corporate event clients assist greatly in achieving the museum’s targets. The museum’s Senior Historian, Terry Charman, then gave a short entertaining talk about why the museum had chosen to mount an exhibit related to Ian Fleming and James Bond; for the two very relevant reasons that Fleming’s wartime career was more decisive than had previously been known by the general public, and that the James Bond name would help raise both the museum’s profile and ticket sales to the exhibition.

The Imperial War Museum, London The Imperial War Museum, London For Your Eyes Only exhibition at the Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museum Senior Historian, Terry Charman.
Imperial War Museum Senior Historian, Terry Charman.
Original artwork for ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1963) by Richard Chopping.
Original artwork for OHMSS (1963) by Richard Chopping.

While chatting with Sir Christopher Wallace I noticed that Michael G. Wilson had arrived with his wife, so introduced Sir Christopher and Terry Charman to the Bond producer, neither of whom had met him before. Sir Christopher and Terry Charman then gave the Wilsons a guided tour of the exhibition, during which Michael kindly posed for me by a photographic enlargement of Ian Fleming standing in the famous ‘Room 39’. With the film James Bond’s favourite tipple Bollinger sponsoring the liquid refreshment for the evening’s event the champagne flowed like, well, champagne, although a little on the warm side I thought!
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Sir Christopher Wallace with Bond Producer Michael G. Wilson.
Sir Christopher Wallace with Bond Producer Michael G. Wilson.
Michael G Wilson and photo of Ian Fleming in 'Room 39'.
Michael G. Wilson and photo of Ian Fleming in 'Room 39'.
Merchandise stand at the Imperial War Museum For Your Eyes Only
IAN FLEMING AND JAMES BOND
17 April 2008 – 1 March 2009
 

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The Imperial War Museum is retailing some rather natty Ian Fleming/James Bond gift items.

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BROWN'S HOTEL London

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Exclusive ‘Ian Fleming Centenary’ Package

To celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Ian Fleming’s birth and the launch of The Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition, ‘For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond’,Rocco Forte’s Brown’s Hotel is offering a special package, The Ian Fleming Centenary stay.

There’s nowhere more appropriate that Brown’s Hotel in which to pay homage to one of literature’s great characters; John Gardner liked the hotel so much he included it in his Bond novel ICEBREAKER, and the sexy and stylish Donovan Bar offers a wide range of decadent Bond cocktails. Things have certainly been shaken, and perhaps a little stirred, since the recent £24 million renovation of Brown’s Hotel; its re-launch was a decidedly glamorous affair with even famed Bond actor Roger Moore in attendance.

Now guests can sample the Bond lifestyle for themselves with this stylish weekend get-away…

Highlights of the Ian Fleming Centenary package include:

  • Overnight accommodation in a luxurious room or suite

  • Full English breakfast (which is reputed to be Bond’s favourite meal of the day)

  • Two tickets to ‘For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond’ – the new exhibition at The Imperial War Museum, London*

  • Two Bond cocktails in The Donovan Bar

  • An exclusive, hardback copy of Ian Fleming’s CASINO ROYALE

  • Guest can also make use of The Spa at Brown’s which offers a wide range of treatments, including a large selection of ‘Male Grooming’ packages.

*Tickets to the ‘For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond’ exhibition are subject to availability and time restrictions may apply. To book these tickets, clients must contact the hotel directly to arrange.

For further details please visit:
http://www.brownshotel.com/offers__packages/ian_fleming_centenary.htm

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