On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) who is planning to hold the world ransom by the threat of sterilising the world's food supply through a group of brainwashed "angels of death". Along the way Bond meets, falls in love with, and eventually marries Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg). It is the only "Bond" film to have been directed by Peter R. Hunt, who had served as a film editor and second unit director on previous films in the series. Hunt, along with producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, decided to produce a more realistic film that would follow the novel closely. It was shot
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel) Fleming's friend Patrick Leigh Fermor pointed out that "Pol Roger" was the only champagne at the time not to be produced in half-bottles. "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is the second book in what is called "the Blofeld trilogy", sitting between "Thunderball", where SPECTRE is introduced and "You Only Live Twice", where Blofeld is finally killed by Bond. Although Blofeld is present in "Thunderball", he directs operations from a distance and as such he and Bond never meet and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" constitutes his and Bond's first meeting. "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was published on 1 April