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ppetrovichh — 22.06.2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Moneypenny#Notes

https://influxmagazine.com/the-ten-best-characters-from-the-james-bond-films/
The principal model for the much-loved Moneypenny character appears to have been a Miss Kathleen Pettigrew, who was the personal assistant to Stewart Menzies, director general of MI6, or “C”. In the first draft of Casino Royale, M’s secretary was “Miss Pettavel” or “Petty”, but Fleming clearly realised that was too close to reality, and changed it. Miss Pettigrew was something of a legend in espionage circles: anyone attempting to gain access to C had first to pass through his terrifying secretary, who was brisk, efficient and not remotely seductive. One former colleague described her as a “formidable, grey-haired lady with the square jaw of the battleship type”.

Vera Atkins, executive officer with “F” (French) Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the espionage and sabotage organisation organised by Churchill to “set Europe ablaze”, was described in her New York Times obituary in 2000 as “widely believed to have inspired the character of Miss Moneypenny”. Another strong possibility is Victoire “Paddy” Bennett, who worked as a secretary in Room 39 and knew Fleming well. Paddy Bennett once described her former colleague, somewhat tartly, as “definitely James Bond, in his mind”. She went on to marry Sir Julian Ridsdale, the long-serving MP for Harwich, and was made a Dame of the British Empire for her work with the Parliamentary Wives Club – a role that has a distinctly Moneypennyish ring to it.

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