James Bond’s London home has been identified nearly 70 years after Ian Fleming wrote the books which earned 007 worldwide fame.
The spy’s luxury bolthole was pinpointed by writer William Boyd, 68, who painstakingly researched the novels. Having pieced together clues from books including Moonraker, From Russia with Love and Thunderball, he believes Bond lived at 25 Wellington Square in Chelsea, West London.
The address is a stone’s throw from 9 Bywater Street where John le Carre placed George Smiley – Britain’s other great spy character of the 20th Century.
In the forthcoming edition of the Times Literary Supplement, Mr Boyd – who wrote the sequel novel Solo – claims Fleming refers to Bond’s home as a “comfortable flat in a Plane-tree’d
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