.
B
EATTIE
J
OHNSON
A seductive, totally unprincipled journalist.
S
EXTON
K
EMP
An extremely fly East End film producer. Chief Executive of Liberty Productions, who are making
Don Carlos
.
L
UCY
L
ATIMER
Make-up artist on
Don Carlos
Still centre and agony aunt to entire cast and crew.
C
LAUDINE
L
AUZERTE
Actress and Gallic goddess, married to a French government minister.
D
ETECTIVE
C
ONSTABLE
L
IGHTFOOT
Eager young constable, traumatized by steamy stint at the 1991 Valhalla orgy.
I
SA
L
OVELL
A brilliant, obsessive jump jockey. A Heathcliff of the gallops.
J
AKE
L
OVELL
His father, ex-world show jumping champion. Now National Hunt trainer.
T
ORY
L
OVELL
Isa’s mother and Jake’s wife — loving and super-efficient, a hard act for a daughter-in-law to follow.
M
ARIA
An ace cook.
D
ETECTIVE
C
ONSTABLE
D
EBBIE
M
ILLER
A pulchritudinous policewoman.
C
OLIN
M
ILTON
Once-great tenor now playing Count Lerma, the Spanish ambassador in
Don Carlos
Old sweetie, eminently bullyable.
É
TIENNE DE
M
ONTIGNY
France’s greatest painter and national hero.
A
LEXANDRE DE
M
ONTIGNY
Étienne’s pompous eldest son, a judge.
H
ORTENSE DE