Rumors

Currently Circulating Rumors regarding London's elite can be found here (sorted by character's surname). Some rumors are rated on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being known by everyone including the subjects themselves and 1 being known by almost no one, except perhaps the rumor starter himself. Others have no rating and are considered well known. Ratings are flexible and may be edited at will. For additional fun, try mixing and matching characters and rumors.  ;)

Remember: These are rumors. Some of these rumors are completely true, others are only partially true, while still others completely false.

Aaron Abdullah

• The real Ambassador Abdullah is still in Morocco. (Rated 2)
  
• Ambassador Abdullah keeps a harem of women back home in Morocco. (Rated 5)
  
  • (In conjunction with the above) Ambassador Abdullah has more than ten children back home, all from his kept women. (Rated 4)
    
• Ambassador Abdullah is secretly the son of the Sultan. (Rated 3)
  
• Ambassador Abdullah is a nobody back home who is trying to make a name for himself abroad. (Rated 6)
  
• Ambassador Abdullah was a military hero back home and is making a calculated move into politics. (Rated 2)
  
• Ambassador Abdullah requested this post and fled Morocco to avoid retribution for seducing a shiek's favourite wife. (Rated 4)
  
  • (In conjunction with the above) It was Phoebe Layton. (Rated 2)
• Ambassador Abdullah requested this post and fled Morocco to avoid retribution for seducing a shiek's favourite wives. (Rated 5)
  
  • (In conjunction with the above) One of whom was Phoebe Layton. (Rated 2)

Annabelle Beacham

• Belle's father was an admiral in the navy. He was actually a bit of a war hero, distinguished himself in the American Revolution. (Rated 9)
  
• Belle's Father is actually a pirate and his estate (and her fortune) are made up of is ill-gotten gains. (Rated 7)
  
• Belle has attracted the attention of well known womaniser, William Gosling. Someone needs to sort her out before she ruins herself. (Rated 2)
  
  • Something has already happened (at Brixton!) between Belle and William Gosling. (Rated 1)
    
• Belle has attracted the attention of the other Gosling brother, the Duke of Leighton. Someone needs to sort her out to make sure she makes the match. (Rated 6)

Stephen Brydges

• Stephen probably had his name in the papers off and on, so anyone who bothered to read those sections on naval developments might recognize his name. (Rated 6)

Christopher Carlisle

• Kit's uncle is nouveau riche. And very 'riche' he is. (Rated 9)
  
  • (In conjunction with the above) Kit stands to inherit everything. (Rated 9)
    
• Kit was involved with another man's wife in Bath two years ago. It was serious. (Rated 1)
  
• Mr. Carlisle is actually Doctor Carlisle, but his adoptive father - his uncle Anthony Ellesmere - frowns upon this. (Rated 6)
  

Arthur Dalrymple

• Arthur has a broken engagement. (Rated 10)
  
  • The cause of the break was his fiancée's secret marriage to someone else. (Rated 2)
    
  • The cause of the break was Arthur's father, who threatened to disinherit him if he married Miss Fforde.(Rated 2)
    
  • The cause of the break was that Miss Fforde couldn't stand Arthur's poetry. (Rated 2)
    
  • The cause of the break was that Arthur lost Miss Fforde in a card game. (Rated 2)
    
  • The cause of the break was that Arthur lost a duel for Miss Fforde's hand. (Rated 2)
    
• Arthur is married. (Rated 2)
  
  • His wife is Miss Fforde. (Rated 2)
    
  • His wife is not Miss Fforde. (Rated 2)

Emma DeLancey

• Emma has no fortune at all (Rated 10)
  
• Emma's father is so controlling that he will not allow her to marry anyone, and would prefer she stay with him forever. (Rated 7)
  
• Emma is secretly engaged to a Russian nobleman and has been since birth. (Rated 6)
  
  • (In Conjunction with Above): Said nobleman is Victor Kincaide. (Rated 2)
    
• Emma and her father's heir, Benedict DeLancey, as certain to be engaged this season. (Rated 7)
  
  • Emma refuses to marry Benedict because she wants to be a nun. (Rated 6)
    
  • Emma refuses to marry Benedict because she has secretly betrothed herself to a landowner from Kent. (Rated 6)
    
  • Benedict refuses to marry Emma for a variety of reasons (ugliness, temper, she's secretly an idiot, etc). (Rated 6)
    

Anthony Dunford

• Anthony Dunford was married in Jamaica, but his poor wife died of a fever. (Rated 3)
  
  • (Alternative to Above): Anthony Dunford was married in Jamaica, but following the deaths of his father and brother, his wife was deemed unsuitable by the duchess and paid a substantial sum to get lost at sea. (Rated 3)
• Anthony Dunford has a two-year-old son in Jamaica. (Rated 6)
  
  • (In Conjunction with Above) His name is James (Rated 4)
    
    • (Alternative to Above) His name is George. (Rated 5)
      

Elizabeth Dunford

• Lizzie Dunford was expelled from seminary after taking up with a footman. (Rated 6)
  
• Lizzie Dunford was secretly engaged last summer to Mr. Charles Johnson, of Kent. (Rated 2)
  
• Lizzie Dunford has absolutely no intention whatsoever of marrying this Season, despite all her minxlike flirtatious looks. (Rated 7)
  
• Lizzie Dunford has a crush on Marcus Fairmont. (Rated 4)

Theresa Fairfax

• Theresa married a much older man and is not happy in the union. (Rated 2)

Camilla Fairmont

• Camilla is tired of grieving the loss of her beloved husband and is thinking of taking a lover. (Rated 3)

Marcus Fairmont

• Marcus raced a lady on horseback through Kensington Gardens (Rated 7).
  • The lady was blonde. (Rated 5).
    
  • The lady was Lizzie Dunford. (Rated 4)
    
  • The lady was Claudia Morton. (Rated 4)
    
• Marcus still carries a torch for:
  
  • Viola Fitzgerald (rated 4)
    
  • Claudia Morton (rated 2).
    
• Marcus would have proposed to Miss Grace Torrington but his best friend Jack O’Donaghue beat him to it and the girl, eager to be married, accepted. (Rated 5)
  
• Marcus is happily married with three small children. (Rated 1)
  
  • (Alternative to above) Marcus is not married (happily or otherwise) but he still has three small children. (Rated 1)

Rosalind Fairmont

• Rosalind Fairmont is taking her sweet time in finding a husband because no one is good enough compared to the gentleman she loves back home in Ireland. (Rated 5)
  
  • (In Conjunction with Above) He's a handsome stablehand. (Rated 4)
    
  • (Alternative to Above) He's a dashing friend of her deceased father. (Rated 5)
    

Olivia Fitzgerald

• Olivia is in love:
  
  • With her country neighbour, Sir William Devenish. (Rated 1)
    
  • With her country neighbour, Charlie Devenish. (Rated 4)
    
• Olivia is not 'Olivia' all but Oksana, the daughter of a friend of Olivia's father and a Russian noble woman. (Rated 1)
  
  • The Russian noblewoman was Victor Kincaide's mother, too.
    
• Olivia is teaching herself Arabic. (Rated 4)
  
  • (In conjunction with the above) Olivia is in love with Aaron Abdullah. (Rated 2)
    
• Olivia is going to marry the Duke of Claitonborough. (Rated 3)

Robert Fitzgerald

• Colonel Fitzgerald has returned home due to a wound received in action while at war Spain (rated 7)
  • (Alternative to above) It was not a wound but an injury and it was not in action but while on patrol (rated 2)

Viola Fitzgerald

• Viola's absence from society for the past three years and decision not to marry is because she had an affair with Geoffrey Stapleton (rated 8);
  
  • (Alternative to above) She has a love child with Geoffrey Stapleton in the country (rated 4);
    
• Viola has been forbidden to speak to Geoffrey by her aunt. (Rated 1)
  
  • This has put a strain on their secret marriage. (Rated 1).
    
• Viola murdered her best friend Lady Priscilla because she was in love with Priscilla's husband. (Rated 6)
  
• Viola and Julia, Duchess of Pennington mutually hate each other. (Rated 9)
  
• The Fitzgerald family has lost all its money (rated 7).
  
  • (In conjunction with above) All the money the Fitzgeralds have now was loaned to them from their generous Rutland cousins. (Rated 1)
    
• Viola was married by proxy in youth to a foreign royal and has been waiting for her husband to return to claim her. (Rated 6)
  
• Viola is so desperate to marry this season that she is flinging herself recklessly at Lord Emerson and even provoked him into challenging Francis Hopkins-Lawrence to a duel over her on Good Friday. (Rated 7)
  
  • (Alternative to above) It was the other way round: Francis challenged Blake. (Rated 6)
    
  • The duel was only averted after Viola persuaded both men to leave off. (Rated 2)
    
• Francis Hopkins-Lawrence proposed to Lady Viola Fitzgerald at her musicale. (Rated 7)
  
• Lord and Lady Rotherham have not returned to town because of their injured son but in order to sort out Viola's marriage prospects once and for all. (Rated 7)
• Viola is engaged to or is about to become engaged to Lord Emerson. (Rated 8)

Hugo Fotherington

• Hugo is home from Spain due to some backfired prank. (Rated 7)
  
• Hugo is hiding from some señorita's family. (Rated 4)

Cassandra Gosling

• Cassandra died of a broken heart when she discovered her husband's mistress. (Rated 3)
  
• Cassandra didn't actually die; she went mad and is locked away at Hopetoun. (Rated 3)
  
• Cassandra and her child didn't die, but both are mad and locked away at Hopetoun. (Rated 2)

Nicholas Gosling

• Nicholas Gosling has a daughter tucked away in his family estate (Rated 3)
  
  • (In Conjunction with Above): Her name is Nichola. (Rated 2)
    
  • (Alternative to Above): Her name is Violet. (Rated 2)
    
  • Violet/Nichola is mad. (Rated 2)
    
  • As is her mother Cassandra. (Rated 2)
    
• Nicholas likes blondes. (Rated 10)
  
• Nicholas Gosling has a beautiful, 17 year old, obscenely wealthy female ward, that he keeps tucked away in the remote country for fear that she'll be preyed upon by the Ton's mercenary. Or Will. (Rated 2)

William Gosling

• William Gosling has an illegitimate son. (Rated 8)
  
  • His illegitimate son is currently in Town with his mother. (Rated 3)
    
    • William doesn't know yet. (Rated 3)
      
    • William does know; he just doesn't care. (Rated 3)
      
• William Gosling is sleeping with:
  
  • Two women. (Rated 7)
    
    • Who are both married. (Rated 6)
      
    • And are sisters. (Rated 6)
      
  • The very newly widowed Lady Eliza Atwood (Rated 6)
    
  • His landlord's wife Mrs. Kirk (Rated 5)
    
  • An unknown Marchioness (Rated 8)
    
  • Katharine Steele (Rated 3)
    
  • All of the above (Rated 7)
    
• Lady Pike's young twins are not Lord Pike's, but actually the offsrping of William Gosling. (Rated 6)
  
• Will Gosling belongs to an exclusive, underground society consisting of nobles from across the country. They practice bizarre rituals and indulge in general debauchery. (Rated 6)
  
• William Gosling ruined Anniemarie Thwaites, the rich little ward of old Lord Locklere, sometime during the week of April 14th. (Rated 5)
  
• William Gosling enjoys toying with young ladies' hearts. (Rated 10)
  
  • (In conjunction with above) One of those ladies is Annabelle Beacham. (Rated 1)
    
  • (Alternative to above) One of those ladies is Julianne Grafton. (Rated 1)
    
  • (Alternative to above) One of those ladies is Katharine Steele. (Rated 1)

Julianne Grafton

• Julianne had an affair with a country squire's son. (Rated 5)
  
  • (In Conjunction With Above) Julianne was ruined by the squire's son. (Rated 3)
    
  • (In Conjunction With Above) Julianne and Lady Elizabeth feud because Lizzie also carried a torch for the very same squire's son. (Rated 3)
    
• Julianne is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Raulings and a Russian archduke. (Rated 2)
  
  • Julianne's half brother is Victor Kincaide. (Rated 1)
    
• Julianne is engaged in a social battle with Lady Juliet Landon. (Rated 8)
  
• Julianne Grafton is only friends with blonde girls. (Rated 7)
  
  • (In Conjunction With Above): Julianne tried to get her sister to color her hair for her debut so Julianne would stand out more. (Rated 5)

Benjamin Grove

• The Marquess of Pendleston, though a good man, is quite obviously and rapidly losing his mind. (Rated 3)

Patrick Grove

• The Grove family is relying on Patrick to lead them now and that he doesn't really want to. (Rated 5)
  
• He's come to London with the idea of perhaps finding a wife. (Rated 6)
  
• He came to London to escape an entanglement with a friend's sister. (Rated 5)

Penelope Grove

• Penelope is the author behind several popular novels. (Rated 2)

George Hackett

• George Hackett has come to London to look for a wife. (Rated 10)
  
• George's father is dying. (Rated 8)
  
• George got entangled with a woman whilst in Italy. (Rated 4)
  
• George is having an affair with a married lady. (Rated 1)

Elise Hampton

• After having been seen enjoying the company of the Duke of Claitonborough, the Duke of Leighton and Lord Daniel Rossington, it is to be supposed that Elise is setting her sights on a Duchess' coronet and isn't picky about which. (Rated 6)
  
• Elise is the illegitimate daughter of the late Marquess of Emerson. (Rated 4)
  
• Elise has no fortune to speak of whatsoever. (Rated 3)

Georgiana Haworth

• Georgiana is pregnant. (Currently rated 4)

Dominic Hissop

(Ratings may change as Dominic begins to mingle in society.)

• Dominic has been brought in to Town to have his edges smoothed off in preparation for becoming the next Duke of Pennington. (Rated 1)
  • This must acknowledge the persistent childless state of the present Duke, hinting that he suspects or has reason to suspect he will remain without a legitimate son. (Rated 1)
    • Dominic is the Duke's own bastard son who was shipped to the West Indies years ago. (Rated -5 because Henry was ten years old when Dominic was born, geez you'd have to be thick as mince to believe this one.)
• Dominic has left a mistress of many years and two illegitimate children in Jamaica. (Rated 1)
  • He plans to make his bastards his heirs as soon as the duchy is his. (Rated 1)
• Dominic is actually a pirate who killed the real Mr. Hissop en route to England. (Rated 1)
• Dominic doesn't have any tan lines. If you know what I mean. (Rated 1 unless someone asks that poor footman, William.)

Julia Hissop

• Julia accepted the Duke of Pennington's offer of marriage mere weeks after he was rejected by her society rival, Lady Viola Fitzgerald. (Rated 8)
  
• Julia cannot bear children. (Rated 1)

Benjamin Hutchinson

• Ben is in extremely frail health and has brought his sister to London in hopes of seeing her well-married before he himself pops his clogs. (Rated 7 after his tumble into the Serpentine)
  
• Invalids of a feather seem to flock together, for Ben has lost his heart to Imogene Rathbone. (Rated 3)
  
  • (In Conjunction with Above) Bookies are now accepting bets on which of the pair will die first. (Rated 3)

Susannah Hutchinson

• Sukey has set her cap at George Hackett, Lord Selwyn. (Rated 6)
  
• Sukey and Ben's Serpentine incident was the result of Sukey trying to communicate with a duck. (Rated 5)

Victor Kincaide

• It's no real secret that Victor is on the lookout for a bride. (Rated 9)
  
• Victor is a Russian noble sent to integrate into London Society until his services are needed. (Rated 1)
  
  • (In Conjunction with Above): His services have been deemed required by Miss Pamela Longstaffe. (Rated 2)
    
  • Victor's half sister is Julianne Grafton. (Rated 2)
    
  • Victor's half sister is Oksana 'Olivia' Fitzgerald. (Rated 2)

Juliet Landon

• Juliet has formed an army of debutante warriors to fight against Lady Julianne Grafton in the battle for the title incomparable. (New recruits welcome) (Rated 7)
  
• Juliet is engaged to Damien Relmsey. (Rated 10)
  
  • Juliet had to get engaged to Damien Relmsey. (Rated 3)
    

Henry Layton (deceased)

• The first Lord Parry was murdered. (Rated 4)
  
• The first Lord Parry is still alive. (Rated 3)
  
• The first Lord Parry worked as a spy against the French. (Rated 2)
  
• The first Lord Parry worked as a spy for the French. (Rated 2)
  
• The first Lord Parry had an affair with Lady Emerson. Who is French. (Rated 3)

Henry Layton

• Henry enjoys reading philosophy. (Rated 9)
  
• Henry, like his father, is a spy. (Rated 2)
  
• Henry has sung professionally on the stage. (Rated 5)
  
• Henry is in love:
  
  • With Charity Pritchard. (Rated 4)
    
  • With Viola Fitzgerald. (Rated 5)
    
  • With Emma Vickery. (Rated 2)
    
  • With Henry. (Rated 10)
    
• Henry is taking an interest in Aaron Abdullah. (Rated 7)
  • Because he is waiting for the right moment to murder him in revenge for seducing his sister, Phoebe. (Rated 2)

Phoebe Layton

• Lady Phoebe converted to Catholicism and resides happily in a convent in Bavaria. (Rated 8)
• Lady Phoebe lost her character in her first season and keeps a faro-bank in Edinburgh with her widowed sister, Lady Kirkfries. (Rated 7)
• Lady Phoebe was won off her brother in a card game by a dashing Italian Count. (Rated 4)
• Lady Phoebe is locked up:
  • In Crantock Abbey by her evil great-uncle the Marquess of Crantock where she is forced to eat rats. Her brother visits her once a year. (Rated 6)
  • In a convent in Bavaria because she lost her character her first season. (Rated 5)
  • In her Italian count/husband's castle in the Appenines. (Rated 4)
• Lady Phoebe is a French spy. (Rated 4)
• Lady Phoebe was kidnapped by pirates and sold to a sultan as his fortieth wife. (Rated 2)
  • (In conjunction with the above) She then got seduced by Aaron Abdullah. (Rated 2)

Frederick Lazenby

• The Lazenbys are strong swimmers. (Rated 1)
• Freddy knows his way around a rowboat. (Rated 1)

Sophia Lazenby

• The Lazenbys are strong swimmers. (Rated 1)

Hermione Longstaffe

• Hermione is a terrible chaperone. (Rated 8)
  
• Hermione is in search of a husband for herself. (Rated 6)
  
• Hermione would be a lot prettier if she wore better clothes. (Rated 6)
  
• Hermione isn't really Pamela's sister but her governess and she lives on a farm. (Rated 5)

Pamela Longstaffe

• Pamela is looking for an eligible beau. (Rated 7)
• Pamela is actually an heiress who wants to marry for love so is playing down her massive fortune. (Rated 4)

Giuseppe Mancini

• Giuseppe Mancini lead a resistance group against the French occupying Italy. He fled the country to avoid capture and execution by Napoleon's troops. (Rated 4)
  
• There isn't a weapon in the world that Giuseppe hasn't mastered by natural talent alone. (Rated 6)
  
• Giuseppe and Henry Angelo do NOT get along. If Giuseppe isn't careful, he's likely to get fired from his position at the Academy. (Rated 8)

Catherine McAvoy

• Catherine poisoned her husband. (Rated 5)
  
• Catherine will make a man out of every young puppy who crosses her path in Edinburgh, especially if they are a red coat. (Rated 8)
  
• Nobody quite knows what goes on during Catherine's house parties at Kirkfries Castle for good reason. (Rated 6)
  
• Catherine is a Catholic and a Jacobite. (Rated 3)
  
• Catherine's high life in Edinburgh is all a cover for the fact that actually she's a bluestocking who writes articles about natural science and philosophy for the Edinburgh Review under a male pseudonym. (Rated 5)
  
• Catherine has a crush on her cousin, The Duke of Leighton. (Rated 1)
  
• Catherine and Katharine Steele have started a club for widows named [K/C]ath[e/a]rine. Membership requirements are obvious. (Rated 3).
• Catherine is having an affair with Stephen Brydges. (Rated 2).

Jane Middleton

• The former Lord Essex, Henry Sterne, sold his daughter to a merchant in exchange for his debts, and then the shame made him commit suicide. (Rated 5)

Claudia Morton

• Claudia ignored her chaperone duties in Bath with Regina Rutledge and spent the time being romanced by a young buck. (Rated 8)
  
• Claudia has raced a certain gentleman on horseback through Kensington Gardens (Rated 6).
  
  • (In conjunction with above) The gentleman was Marcus Fairmont, from whom she waited for a proposal, and with whom she was in love. (Rated 5)
    
  • (Alternative to above) ... with whom she is still in love. (Rated 2)
    
• Claudia's marriage with Lord Worth has not been consummated. (Rated 4)
  
• Claudia has had at least two illegitimate children in secret. (Rated 4)
  
• Lord Worth has had at least two illegitimate children in secret. (Rated 3)
  
• Claudia hasn't given birth to an heir due to an inability to conceive. (Rated 1)

Gwendolyn Moncrieff

• Gwen is having an affair with Lord Wyck. (Rated 1)
  

Oscar Moncrieff

• Lord Avening has a bride in Asia, the daughter of a Mongolian chieftain, whom he has left behind but is in correspondence with. (Rated 5)
  
• Lord Avening has lost all his money and is forcing his ward, Miss Clare, to marry him next Season. (Rated 3)

Jemima Palmer

• Jemima has been living in a French convent for the last few years, due to certain indiscretions. (Rated 2)
  • (Alternative to above) Jemima has been in France acting as a companion to an elderly relative. (Rated 8)
    • (Addition to above) Said relative is extremely wealthy and has named Jemima as the sole heir to her fortune. (Rated 5)
    • (Addition to above) Lady Francesca Palmer started the rumor about the fortune. (Rated 1)

Hammond Poore

• Hammond is the secretary of the German ambassador. (Rated 2)
  
• Hammond's real name is Herr Hanzart. (Rated 1)
• Hammond is in love with Felicity Staunton. (Rated 8)
• Hammond hates Algernon Culpepper. (Rated 7)

Blake Pritchard

• Blake ruined a debutante named Evangeline Listern, then refused to married her. She was forced to move to America to cover up her shame. (Rated 2)
  
• Blake is desperately in love with Viola Fitzgerald. (Rated 6)
  
  • (In Conjunction With Above)Viola won't have him because she is in love with his brother. (Rated 3)
    
• Blake plays the violin. (Rated 2)

Charity Pritchard

• Charity turned up to her coming out ball in a negligee. She was then forced to change it but not before most of the guests had got a fair impression of her assets. (Rated 8)
  
• Charity is in love:
  • With Victor Kincaide. (Rated 2)
    
  • With Henry Layton. (Rated 4)

Gabriel Pritchard

• The real Gabriel Pritchard is dead. (Rated 1)

Imogen Rathbone

• Imogen is dying. (Rated 6)
• Imogen is dead. (Rated 4)

Daniel Rossington

• Lord Daniel Rossington's sudden absence from England last season had nothing to do with his desire to tour the continent, but instead over heartbreak. (Rated 8)
  
• His sister-in-law, the Duchess of Welby, died just before his departure (Rated 10).
  
• Lord Daniel Rossington has at least one illegitimate child running around Europe. (Rated 6).
  
  • (In Conjunction With Above) The boy has been rumoured to live either in Germany, Italy and France. (Rated 5).
    
  • (In Conjunction With Above) His name changes between Matthew and Richard. (Rated 5).

Demelza Quartermaine

• Mrs. Q was quite the fox in her day. (Rated 5)
  

Walter Roydon

• Though there have been rumours of duels, no one can produce bodies or injuries to account for Walter's having fought anyone on any account. (Rated 8)
  
• Walter Roydon has various illegitimate children. Estimates range between 3 and 30. (Rated 10)
  
  • (In Conjunction with Above): One of them is William Gosling. (Rated 4)
  • One of them is Teddy Meredith. (Rated 3)

John Rutledge

• John took/takes singing lessons from an Italian music master. (Rated 9)
  
  • This Italian music master is a woman. (Rated 8)
    
• John is heir to the Westmore barony due to the death of his brother. (Rated 9)
  
  • He'll inherit a ton of money, if the way Lord Westmore lives is any indication (Rated 7)
    
  • He'll inherit a ton of debt, unless his father turns the estate around. (Rated 4)
    
    • (In conjunction with above) John doesn't know about the aforementioned debt. (Rated 4)
      

Regina Rutledge

• Regina is an accomplished artist. (Rated 10)
  
• Regina is madly in love with her penniless painting tutor, whom she can never marry, but gets extra special lessons from. (Rated 5)
  
• Regina refused the hand of a wealthy suitor in Bath. (Rated 7)
  
• Regina had no suitors or interest in Bath. (Rated 7)
  
• Regina ignored the advice of her chaperone, Lady Worth, for her own whims and follies while in Bath. (Rated 4)

Rutledge Family

• Victor Rutledge, John's older brother, died in a carriage accident. (Rated 10)
  
  • (In conjunction with above) The circumstances are still ambiguous regarding what he was doing in that part of town at night...(Rated 6)
    
• The Rutledge twins were not actually fathered by Lord Westmore. (Rated 3)
  
  • (In conjuction with above) ... but were actually fathered by a close family friend who is also a baron. (Rated 3)

Nathaniel Scarborough

• The Scarboroughs may live in Devon but they were originally from... Scarborough. (Rated 3)
  
• Nathaniel has a secret he is not telling anyone. (Rated 6)
  
• Nathaniel has just discovered that he is heir to a Royal Dukedom and is not quite sure how to deal with the change in his situation. (Rated 2)
  
• Nathaniel was dismissed from the navy for mysterious misdeeds. (Rated 3)
  
• Nathaniel was wounded in battle and forced to resign his commission. (Rated 7)
  
• Nathaniel has his eye on
  • Felicity Staunton. (Rated 4)
    
  • Imogen Rathbone. (Rated 3)
    
  • Katharine Steele. (Rated 5)
    
  • Rosalind Fairmont. (Rated 3)
    
  • Emily Grey. (Rated 4)
• Nathaniel is something of a flirt. (Rated 8)
• Nathaniel keeps a mistress in the city, and he sometimes spends the night. (Rated 1, 3 among servants)
• The Bathurst House is actually a gateway to the spirit world. Sometimes during the night people can hear lost spirits roaming the halls and rooms, searching for their way home or looking for someone to mess with. (Rated 1)

Geoffrey Stapleton

• Geoffrey has a private income. (Rated 7)
• Geoffrey is the real identity of popular novelist Adam Lane. (Rated 1)
• Geoffrey has a peculiar skin disease that means he rarely removes his gloves. (Rated 3)
• Geoffrey is in love with Viola Fitzgerald. (Rated 9)
  • Had an affair with Viola. (Rated 8)
  • Has married Viola in secret. (Rated 3)
  • Has a love child with her. (Rated 4)

Felicity Staunton

• Felicity has no fortune to speak of. (Rated 7)
  
• Felicity is always snappy at Marcus Fairmont because she is secretly in love with him (Rated 3)
  
• Felicity has attracted the attention of Algernon Culpepper and a proposal is expected within the next few weeks. (Rated 9)
  
  • (In conjunction with above): She is excited about becoming a Culpepper. (Rated 10, if you ask Algernon Culpepper)
    
  • (In conjunction with above): She is dreading becoming a Culpepper. (Rated 8, if you ask anyone else)
    
• Felicity foolishly refused Algernon Culpepper's proposal in Hyde Park. (Rated 10)
  
• Felicity wisely refused Algernon Culpepper's proposal in Hyde Park. (Rated 10)

Linus Staunton

• Linus has no fortune to speak of. (Rated 6)
  
• Linus is really only friends with Algernon Culpepper for his money. (Rated 7)
  
• Linus has taken laudanum for more than medicinal purposes. (Rated 6)
  
• Linus is a member of the Hellfire Club. (Rated 5)
  
• Linus was seen in a quite compromising situation with an actress in a shadowy area at Vauxhall recently. (Rated 3)
  
• Linus has fathered at least 7 children, some which have been disguised as additional Staunton siblings as no one would notice the surplus. (Rated 4)
  
• Linus has nicked one of Auntie D's stockings and gave it away as part of a card game forfeit. (Rated 3)
  

Katharine Steele

• Katharine Steele is back in town not only for her sister's debut but also for a new husband herself. (Rated 6)
  
• Katharine Steele is back in town not only for her sister's debut but also to take a lover. (Rated 6)
• Katharine Steele has certain talents that would drive many men out of their wits. (Rated 1 in polite society; closer to 4 or 5 in less genteel company.)
  
• Katharine Steele is making friends in all the wrong places. (Rated 3)
  
• Katharine Steele is dangling after Nathaniel Scarborough. (Rated 2)

Rebecca (Garrison) Sterne

• Rebecca is not married because she suffers from some kind of delicate ailment and can never bear children. (Rated 2)
  
• Rebecca is married and has three children. She has abdicated from that dreary life, leaving the children with her sister, and has run away to start fresh with the Groves.
  
• Rebecca has recently married Thomas Sterne. (Rated 10)
  
• Rebecca is carrying the child of a military man. (Rated 7)
  
  • (In conjunction with above) That military man is her new husband Thomas Sterne. (Rated 7)
    
  • (Alternative to above) That military man is not her new husband Thomas Sterne. (Rated 4)

Richard Sterne

• Richard is a very mysterious and reclusive man who spends most of his time traveling to exotic locations. (Rated 8)
  
  • (Alternative to Above): In one of his trips, Lord Essex contracted an unknown disease which has rendered him quite mad. (Rated 6).

Thomas Sterne

• Captain Sterne has killed a man in a duel. (Rated 8)
  
• He has sung serenades under Mrs. Quartermaine's window. (Rated 9)
  
  • The captain is in love with Mrs. Quartermaine. (Rated 5)
    
  • The reason why the captain has been seen prowling about Miss Staunton is because he is trying to get closer to his beloved, Demelza. (Rated 3)
    
• He is participating in a wager on who can seduce a greater quantity of Spanish officers' wives. (Rated 8)
  
• He has seduced, become engaged to, and broken the latter engagement with a certain baron's daughter after being back in London for less than a week. (Rated 1)
  
• He is having an affair with Selina Clare. (Rated 5)
  
• Thomas is newly married to Rebecca Garrison. (Rated 10)
  
  • This has not affected his relationship with Selina Clare. (Rated 3)

James Tibbord

• Old Mr. Tibbord was murdered because he threatened to expose a competitor's involvement in a smuggling ring. (Rated 5)

Mary Tibbord

• Polly was dismissed from her last post because she had plotted to run away to Gretna Green with the eldest son of the family. (Rated 7)
• There is something very strange about Polly's relationship with her employers, the Hutchinsons, who hired her despite her lack of good references. (Rated 4)

Charlotte Tolson

• Miss Charlotte Tolson has been romantically linked to much of English society in India (receiving at least 3 proposals!), and has also been linked to members outside of Anglo-Indian society. (Rated 7)
  
• Charlotte was the belle of Bombay society. (Rated 5)
  
• Charlotte is actually secretly engaged to a young gentleman that she met in Bombay. (Rated 3)
  
  • (In Conjunction with Above): But that was India and who really cares about that in London? (Rated 4)
    
• Charlotte practices Indian pagan sorcery in her London garden (Rated 1)

Edward Tolson

• Mr. Edward Tolson had once considered abandoning his title and wealth to join the East India Company as a soldier, but as the only son of the current Baron Middleton, had been forcefully coerced out of such a path. (Rated 7)
  
• Edward was so loathe to leave India as he had fallen in love with a native, the daughter of his Amah.

Christiaan van der Veer

• Christiaan is connected to the royalty. (Rated 2)
  
• He is the ambassador of Germany. (Rated 4)

Phillip Vaudrey

• Sir Phillip has an idiot son in the country. (Rated 3)
  
  • (Alternate to above) Sir Phillip had a son, but he is dead. (Rated 4)
    
  • As a result, Lady Vaudrey went hopelessly mad. (Rated 6)
    
  • Lady Vaudrey is not dead at all, but locked in an insane asylum. (Rated 5)
    • She shares a room with Cassandra Gosling. (Rated 3)

Emma Vickery

• Miss Emma Vickery has had a proposal, and accepted it (Rated 7)
  
  • The engagement came to an end due to the gentleman's death (Rated 5)
    
  • (Alternative to above) The gentleman is still living but has fled abroad due to some undisclosed indiscretion or other (Rated 4)

Robert Vickery

• Mr Vickery challenged his sister's erstwhile suitor to a duel but the latter fled abroad before the duel could take place (Rated 4)

Louisa Westcott

• Louisa has a background in trade. (Rated 6)
  
• Lousia's marriage is already an unhappy one, with no romance at all except Louisa's love affair with interior decorating fabrics. (Rated 1)
  
• Louisa is unable to have children. (Rated 1)

The Winter Family

• The family made its fortune in trade. (Rated 2)
  
• The family has no fortune to speak of (Rated 1)
  
• Augusta Winter tried to smother Katie Winter in her sleep out of jealousy. (Rated 2)

Helena Wriothesley

• Croquembouche is the sole descendant of Marie Antoinette's favourite King Charles Spaniel. (Rated 2)