James Bond Remembered His Dead Wife 8 Years After Her Death

James Bond (Roger Moore) remembered his dead wife in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me, 8 years after she died. Tracy Bond (Diana Rigg) is the only woman James Bond ever married, which happened at the end of 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. James Bond (George Lazenby) met and fell in love with Contessa Tracy DiVincenzo, the troubled daughter of international crime lord Marc-Ange Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti). Draco and 007 teamed up to take down the diabolical former leader of Spectre, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas).

Tracy and James Bond marry at the conclusion of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, but their union would be tragically brief. Driving to their honeymoon, the couple was ambushed by Blofeld and his henchwoman, Irma Bunt (Isle Steppat). Blofeld and Bunt gunned down Tracy. In the next 007 movie, 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond (Sean Connery) went on a worldwide manhunt for Blofeld, but he never mentioned Tracy. When Roger Moore took over as James Bond, Tracy was again not name-dropped - until a surprise reference in The Spy Who Loved Me.

James Bond Remembered His Dead Wife 8 Years After Her Death

Tracy Bond Is Referenced In The Spy Who Loved Me

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In The Spy Who Loved Me, James Bond's romantic and professional foil was Soviet operative Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach), whose code name was Agent Triple X. Bond and Anya first crossed paths in Cairo, Egypt, as they both sought a microfilm owned by victim of the hulking assassin, Jaws (Richard Kiel). When 007 and Agent Triple X encounter each other again in a nightclub, Anya recites the Soviets' dossier on James Bond and references Tracy Bond for the first time since her death in On Her Majesty's Secret Service:

Commander James Bond, recruited to the British Secret Service from the Royal Navy. Licensed to kill, and has done so on numerous occasions. Many lady friends, but married only once. Wife killed..."

James Bond cut Anya Amasova off, admitting that he is sensitive "about certain things." Bond's reaction did belie a hidden side to him and confirmed that he never got over Tracy's murder. Anya calling back to Tracy also confirmed that Roger Moore's James Bond is the same 007 played by Sean Connery and George Lazenby and that all of the Bond movies share a continuous narrative despite the different actors playing the British secret agent. Although Roger Moore's Live and Let Die in 1971 had the trappings of a reboot from Sean Connery, it's the same James Bond throughout the series.

For Your Eyes Only Is James Bond’s Last Mention Of Tracy

No Time To Die References "We Have All The Time In The World"

Tracy Bond was referenced one final time in 1981's For Your Eyes Only, which begins with James Bond leaving flowers at his wife's grave. Teresa Bond's year of death is 1969, the same year On Her Majesty's Secret Service was released, confirming that James Bond's life was unfolding in real time. For Your Eyes Only's prologue also saw James Bond finally kill Blofeld, exacting long-awaited vengeance for Tracy's death.

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2006's Casino Royale rebooted James Bond with a new timeline so that Daniel Craig's 007 lived a completely different life from the Bond played by his predecessors. Craig's Bond never met Tracy DiVincenzo. Bond fell in love, and lost, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), who subbed in for Tracy as the love of James' life. Bond then fell in love with Dr. Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux), and they had a daughter. No Time To Die used Bond and Tracy's love song, "We Have All The Time In The World," for James and Madeleine, the only reference Daniel Craig's James Bond made to Tracy Bond in the previous 007 timeline.