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The historical background of You Only Live Twice


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#1 nanolark

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Posted 18 April 2015 - 10:27 AM

While re-reading YOLT I started more closely analyse the fragment when Tanaka lectures Bond on Britain's decline. Until now it was clear for me that Tiger's words about "[…] wallowing nostalgically in gossip about the doings of the Royal Family and of [British] so-called aristocracy in the pages of the most debased newspapers in the world" was a veiled reference to the Profumo Affair. However, Fleming  finished the first drought a month before the scandal became known. If it was not an allusion to the Profumo-Keeler acquaintance than what else Fleming might have been thinking about? The affairs of Duchess of Argyll (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/16/world/london-journal-a-sex-scandal-of-the-60-s-doubly-scandalous-now.html), Princess Margaret's failed marriage or maybe it was something else?