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Woman who inspired Miss Moneypenny passes away at 88 | Dame Victoire 'Paddy' Ridsdale, the secret service secretary who inspired the character of Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond stories, has passed away. She was 88. Ridsdale
once described Ian Fleming as "definitely James Bond in his mind". Fleming and
Dame Paddy worked together in the wartime Naval Intelligence Department, reports
The Times. Insisting she's just Fleming's friend, the lady denied harbouring amorous
feelings for him. She said that she was "never taken in by his charm". "He'd go
off and do something brave and come back with silk stockings and lipsticks for
me," she told People magazine in 1998. "I always kept him at arm's length." She
became Lady Ridsdale when her husband was knighted in 1981, and was appointed
DBE in her own right, for political services, in 1991. The Ridsdales had a daughter,
Penny, whose husband Sir Paul Newall is a former Lord Mayor of London. |
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