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Fleming was married to Anne Charteris. She had divorced her husband, the 2nd Viscount Rothermere, because of her affair with the author. Fleming and Charteris had a son, Caspar. Fleming was a heavy smoker and drinker for most of his life and succumbed to heart disease in 1964 at the age of 56. See more
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank See more
Birth and family
Ian Lancaster Fleming was born on 28 May 1908, at 27 Green Street in the wealthy London district of Mayfair. His mother was Evelyn "Eve" Fleming, née Rose, and his father was Valentine Fleming See more• Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming, 1989. A television film starring Charles Dance as Fleming. The film focuses on Fleming's … See more
The author Raymond Benson, who later wrote a series of Bond novels, noted that Fleming's books fall into two stylistic periods. Those books written between 1953 and 1960 … See more
In the late 1950s, the author Geoffrey Jenkins had suggested to Fleming that he write a Bond novel set in South Africa, and sent him his own idea for a plot outline which, according to Jenkins, Fleming felt had great potential. After Fleming's death, Jenkins was … See more
• Amis, Kingsley (1966). The James Bond Dossier. London: Pan Books. OCLC 752401390.
• Bennett, Tony; Woollacott, Janet (2003). "The … See morePeople mentioned in the articleWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA licence Why it was Ian Fleming's wife who invented James Bond
WEB1 Feb 2008 · In public, his wife Ann was a beautiful, sharp-witted aristocrat. In private, she soaked up the pain the abusive Fleming caused her - …
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Evolution of James Bond charted in Ian Fleming’s …
WEB12 Nov 2019 · The couple first met in 1934 when Ann was married to Lord O’Neill. It would be almost 20 years until she and Fleming would marry, …
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For Sale: Trove of Tempestuous Letters Exchanged by Ian Fleming …
WEBWhen Ian Fleming married his wife, Ann, in 1952, they had already been lovers for nearly 15 years. The pair’s relationship was by turns passionate, tender, stormy and …
Ian Fleming: The Real-Life 007 Who Worked For Her Majesty's
- Fleming led a glamorous life in London and at GoldenEye, his Jamaican retreat, where he hosted many parties - his womanizing exploits not unlike those of 007. Ian Fleming was also a doting father to his son, Casper, born in 1952. Fleming wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car in 1962as a story for Caspar. The boy’s mother was the beautiful ...
High-society sadomasochism: James Bond creator’s …
WEB12 Nov 2019 · Her first husband was Shane O'Neill, the third Baron O'Neill. After his death in action, in 1944, she married the newspaper magnate Esmond Harmsworth, the second Viscount Rothermere. During both...
From Jamaica with Love: how Ian Fleming’s Caribbean …
WEB30 Sep 2021 · Fleming was married to Ann, the former Viscountess Rothermere, at the time, although the sexual side of their relationship, Ann claimed later, had ended after the birth of their son Caspar in...
For Their Eyes Only – the letters of Ian and Ann Fleming
WEB15 September 2023. For Their Eyes Only – the letters of Ian and Ann Fleming. We mark the exciting acquisition of a collection of letters between Ian Fleming, creator of James …
Letters From Ian Fleming to His Wife Contain Details on James Bond
WEB23 Nov 2019 · He and Charteris met in 1934 when she was married to Shane, 3rd Baron O’Neill. Fleming worked as a banker in London and was accustomed to a life of parties, …
High society and sadism: Ian Fleming’s racy letters to Ann …
WEBMore than 150 largely unpublished letters chronicling their secret relationship in the 1940s, when she was married to someone else and their betrothal in 1952 through to his death …
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