Tracy Bond
Teresa "Tracy" Bond (born Teresa "Tracy" Draco, and also known as the Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo) is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the 1963 James Bond novel "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", and its 1969 film adaptation. She is the second Bond girl to marry 007, the first being in "You Only Live Twice" as an undercover ploy. In the film version, Tracy is played by actress Diana Rigg. Biography. Born Teresa Draco in 1943 (1937 in the novel), she is the only child of Marc-Ange Draco, the head of the Unione  Corse, a powerful Corsican crime syndicate – not quite as large as SPECTRE, but with substantially larger "legal" operations, including Draco Construction. Teresa goes by "Tracy", because she feels "Teresa" does not suit her. As she introduced herself to Bond, she stated, "Teresa is a saint; I'm known as Tracy". Tracy's mother was an English governess and died in 1955; her father then sent her to a boarding school in Switzerland. Deprived of a stable home life, Tracy joined the "international fast set", committing "one scandal after another"; when Draco cut off her allowance, Tracy committed "a greater folly  out of spite. She later married Italian Count Giulio di Vicenzo who, during their marriage, got hold of a large portion of her money before eventually leaving her and her father paying him off for a divorce; he subsequently died while driving a Maserati in the company of one of his mistresses. During this marriage, Tracy had a child, who later died of spinal meningitis. Desperate with grief for her child, Tracy attempted suicide by walking into the sea in Portugal, only to be saved by James Bond. When her father meets Bond, he pleads with Bond to continue to 	Tracy Bond
802634	see her, claiming that their relationship had changed her for the better. Bond initially refuses, but he changes his mind when Marc-Ange offers his resources for anything Bond desires. Since the events of Thunderball" and the demise of SPECTRE, 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 Draco's resources, however, Bond is able to track Blofeld to Switzerland. In return, Bond continues to see Tracy and eventually falls in love  with her. Tragedy strikes on their wedding day, however, when Blofeld and his henchwoman Irma Bunt shoot at Bond and Tracy in a drive-by shooting. Tracy is shot in the head and killed. In the film, Tracy drives a red 1969 model Mercury Cougar XR-7 convertible. Legacy. In Fleming's novels, Bond is a broken man after Tracy's death. In "You Only Live Twice", he has begun drinking heavily, which has affected his work. M is forced to acknowledge that Bond is no longer fit for service. However, he decides to give Bond one last chance and assigns  him to an intelligence-related diplomatic affair in Japan. This in turn leads to a duel to the death with Blofeld in the climax of the novel, and Bond is finally awarded his revenge but suffers a head injury that leaves him with amnesia. In the films, James Bond is tracking Blofeld in the pre-title credits sequence of "Diamonds Are Forever". The film does not explain why nor does it mention Tracy. Originally, it had been planned that "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" would end with Bond and Tracy driving away from their wedding. The scenes where she  was shot were filmed at the same time with the intention that they would form the pre-title sequence of "Diamonds Are Forever". As a result of George Lazenby leaving the role, these scenes ended up being part of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". Subsequent films reference the fact that Bond was previously married, but only fleetingly: Movie props. Tracy's wedding dress is now kept at the Admiral Hotel in Milan, along with a big collection of "James Bond" and "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" items.