THE original James Bond was a Tudor spy who posed as a tennis player and informed Elizabeth I.
Author Christian Howgill said the first secret agent to use "007" as a code was John Dee, who operated 500 years ago.
He told the Chalke Valley History Festival that Dee was a special favourite of the queen.
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