She is notable for being Bond's first and one of his few genuine love interests and for being the first 'Bond girl'. She is a double agent working for SMERSH ( Quantum in the 2006 film) who goes undercover as a partner, and eventual lover to James Bond.
Vesper Lynd is the deuteragonist of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel Casino Royale the first installment in the James Bond series, and a major character in the Eon film reboot pentalogy, appearing as the deuteragonist of Casino Royale. And since your first thought about me ran to 'orphan', that's what I'd say you are.
Which means you were at that school by the grace of someone else's charity: hence that chip on your shoulder. But you wear it with such disdain, my guess is you didn't come from money, and your school friends never let you forget it. Naturally you think human beings dress like that. by the cut of your suit, you went to Oxford or wherever.