But this is a modern Bond, who eats kimchi for the good of his gut, and looks down on knee-jerk nationalism. Once upon a time, Ian Fleming’s Bond, who used to go on about how tea-drinkers were responsible for losing control of the British Empire, might have been tempted to join them. The villain in question is the self-styled “Æthelstan of Wessex”, who claims direct descent from Alfred the Great and thinks he has more of a right to the English throne than “King Charles the Woke” – that shill for all the foreign elites who have kept the true English downtrodden since the Norman Conquest.Ġ07 thus goes undercover at a remote Hungarian castle, where a cabal of failed Right-wing politicians, disaffected aristocrats and populist rabble-rousers from EDL-style organisations are meeting to receive their orders from Æthelstan. So Bond’s first mission on His Majesty’s Secret Service is… to wipe out Ant and Dec if they start misbehaving in Westminster Abbey? No: it’s to bring down a supervillain plotting to do something worse to the King on May 6 than put itching powder in his supertunica, as well as sponsoring a series of outrages across London that “will make the Capitol riots look like Aunt Fanny’s tea party”. Show the doubters who’ve written us off that we’re open for business… Present this country as a safe pair of hands.” “This coronation is a chance to advertise UKplc to the world, Bond. On His Majesty’s Secret Service, a new James Bond adventure by Charlie Higson dashed off to celebrate the Coronation, begins with M giving voice to what we’re all anxiously thinking.
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