Whatever Happened to the Bond Girls?

edited April 2014 in Literary 007 Posts: 2,918
One of the questions often asked about the Bond novels is "whatever happened to the Bond girl after the novel ended"?
In some cases Fleming told us what happened to his heroines.
Honeychile Rider "had two children by the Philadelphia doctor she had married."
Tiffany Case, lived with Bond in his flat until she met a Marine at the US Embassy and sailed back to America to marry him. Gala Brand got engaged to Detective-Inspector Vivian. I presume that after she got married and had kids, she probably retired from the Special Branch to become a housewife, as women often did in the 50s.

As for what happened to the other Bond girls, here are my guesses...

Solitaire: moved to Las Vegas and opened a psychic shop, telling the fortunes of superstitious gamblers.
Tatiana Romanova: relocated by the Secret Service to Canada, where she met and married a Mountie. Had a large family.
Pussy Galore: having evaded prison, she moved to Nevada and opened the world's biggest whorehouse.
Mary Ann Russell: continued working for Station F, eventually married a French count and retired to the riviera.
Judy Havelock: returned to Jamaica to rebuild and manage "Content," her parents' estate. Specializes in cattle and bananas.
Liz Krest: inherited her late husband's millions and spends her days sailing around the world, taking it easy.
Domino Vitali: resumed her kept-woman ways, romancing rich playboys all over the world. Never married, now working as a nanny in Naples.
Vivienne Michel: continued her journey on scooter across North America until she reached San Francisco, where she settled down to open a coffee shop in Haight-Ashbury, giving poetry readings for hippies. Never married.
Kissy Suzuki: resumed life as an Ama diver in Fukuoka and raised Bond's son, who grew up to be a policeman on the mainland.
Mary Goodnight: took over her late boss's role as head of the Jamaica section of the Secret Service, had occasional flings with Bond whenever he returned to the island.
Trigger: executed by the Russians for her failure to kill British agent 272.

And what do you think happened to the Bond girls? Share your thoughts!

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  • edited April 2014 Posts: 1,282
    Christmas Jones got her job revoked after it was found that her PhD was just an honorary one accidentally given to her. She's now taking physics 1 for the tenth time.

    Wai Lin got lost at sea that night escaping Bond but settled down on her own and built her own media empire and clothing apparel line before marrying an American expat who thought he knew Chinese just because he owns a Chinese restaurant and knew a few Mandarin words.

    Natalia found Bond so cold, and Bond found her too desperate. It just didn't work out.

    Bond still thinks Kara Milovy is waiting for him but he doesn't know how manh kids she has with her husband now.

    Stacy went to therapy after finding out she wasn't holding the soap and stopped drinking. She also got over her daddy issues. She's been sober but her house is now under the control of her husband and son who is trying to throw her into a dementia ward of an assisted living home for the wealthy.
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    Christmas Jones got her job revoked after it was found that her PhD was just an honorary one accidentally given to her. She's now taking physics 1 for the tenth time.

    I believe it! And the other fates are just as plausible. Poor Stacy--I bet she has an irrational fear of balloons as well.

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