Question: Where did the torch relay begin in the city where the writer of Ernst Stavro Blofeld was born, during the 2008 Olympics?

The 48 km (30 mi) leg took a total of seven and a half hours to complete, and attracted protests by pro-Tibetan independence and pro-Human Rights supporters, prompting changes to the planned route and an unscheduled move onto a bus, which was then briefly halted by protestors. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has officially complained to Beijing Organising Committee about the conduct of the tracksuit-clad Chinese security guards. The Chinese officials, seen manhandling protesters, were described by both the London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Lord Coe, chairman of the London Olympic Committee as "thugs". A Metropolitan police briefing paper revealed that security for the torch relay cost £750,000 and the participation of the Chinese security team had been agreed in advance, despite the Mayor stating, "We did not know beforehand these thugs were from the security services. Had I known so, we would have said no." Great Britain: The torch relay leg held in London, the host city of the 2012 Summer Olympics, on April 6 began at Wembley Stadium, passed through the City of London, and eventually ended at O2 Arena in the eastern part of the city. <SEP> His mother was Evelyn ("" Rose), and his father was Valentine Fleming, the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 to 1917. Ian Lancaster Fleming was born on 28 May 1908, at 27 Green Street in the wealthy London district of Mayfair. As an infant he briefly lived, with his family, at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire. Fleming was a grandson of the Scottish financier Robert Fleming, who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust and the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. <SEP> the two travel to the hotel and discover white's secret room where they find co-ordinates pointing to oberhauser's operations base in the desert. they travel by train to the nearest station, but are once again confronted by hinx; they engage in a fight throughout the train in which mr hinx is eventually thrown off the train by bond with swann's assistance. after arriving at the station, bond and swann are escorted to oberhauser's base. there, he reveals that spectre has been staging terrorist attacks around the world, creating a need for the nine eyes programme. in return spectre will be given unlimited access to intelligence gathered by nine eyes. bond is tortured as oberhauser discusses their shared history: after the younger bond was orphaned, oberhauser's father, hannes, became his temporary guardian. believing that bond supplanted his role as son, oberhauser killed his father and staged his own death, subsequently adopting the name ernst stavro blofeld and going on to form spectre. bond and swann escape, destroying the base in the process, leaving blofeld to apparently die during the explosion. <SEP> A criminal mastermind with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond. Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming. Blofeld is head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE and is commonly referred to by the codename Number 1 within this organisation. The character was originally written by Fleming as a physically massive and powerfully built man, standing around and weighing 21.6 stone (about ), who had become flabby with a huge belly. <SEP> the 2008 summer olympics torch relay was run from march 24 until august 8, 2008, prior to the 2008 summer olympics, with the theme of "one world, one dream". plans for the relay were announced on april 26, 2007, in beijing, china. the relay, also called by the organizers as the "journey of harmony", lasted 129 days and carried the torch 137,000 km (85,000 mi) – the longest distance of any olympic torch relay since the tradition was started ahead of the 1936 summer olympics.