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Ursula Andress

Fearless, loyal and sexy -- James Bond represents the best of Britain

Friday is one of those rare occasions that my home country, the once "great" Britain, gets to blow its own trumpet on the world stage.It is not for a royal event – us Brits normally need a wedding or Jubilee to get on America's radar, but another British institution. The US release of the twenty-third official James Bond film, "Skyfall." Nobody has managed to do a film franchise better – Bond's is now in its fiftieth year.I like to think I'm James Bond's granddaughter. The character was created by Ian Fleming in 1953, who said Bond was a combination "of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war." Men who included my maternal grandfather Tony Hugill, who was even named in Fleming's Bond novel "The Man With The Golden Gun."James Bond represents Britain's best qualities. Bond has always been the ultimate defender of Queen and country, which was why it was a perfect screen marriage when the Queen appeared with James Bond at the Olympics.The Bond films have in common wit...

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