Pomona Rewind

Few actresses in a 007 movie go on to have a career that eclipsed the actor who played James Bond. However that is what exactly happened with Diana Rigg after her appearance opposite George Lazenby in Peter R Hunt's 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'. But it should have come as no surprise as Rigg was a formidable Yorkshire woman, who carved out a distinguished career in theatre, television and film by making some smart choices.  Born in Doncaster in 1938, her father was a railway engineer and, when Diana was just two months old, uprooted the family to Bikaner in Rajasthan in India to work in the state railway. The family remained there for eight years and she learned Hindi which be some her second language. On her return to England for boarding school, Rigg was educated at Fulneck Girls School, in a Moravian settlement close to Pudsey.  She hated boarding but later admitted those years in Yorkshire had a bigger influence on her than her Indian upbringing. On leaving sch