Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies Staff
Miss Ophelia Grimm	Headmistress
Aldous Grump	Miss Grimm’s husband
Mrs Louella Derby	Personal Secretary to the Headmistress
Miss Livinia Reedy	English teacher
Mr Josiah Plumpton	Science teacher
Howie (Mrs Howard)	Housemistress
Mr Cornelius Trout	Music teacher
Mrs Doreen Smith	Cook
Charlie Weatherly (Mr Charles)	Gardener
Elsa	Stablehand
Students
Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones
Millicent Jane McLoughlin-McTavish-McNoughton-McGill	Alice-Miranda’s best friend and room mate
Jacinta Headlington-Bear	Friend
Sloane Sykes	Friend
Madeline Bloom, Ashima Divall, Ivory Hicks, Susannah Dare, Danika Rigby	Friends
Sainsbury Palace School Staff
Mrs Mildred Jelly	Headmistress
Professor Crookston	Science teacher
Others
Aunty Gee	Queen Georgiana
Constable Derby	Local policeman, married to Louella Derby
Myrtle Parker	Show Society President and village busybody
Reginald Parker	Husband of Myrtle
Hephzibah Fayle	Friend of Alice-Miranda’s and owner of Caledonia Manor
Henrietta Sykes	Sister of Hephzibah and step-granny of Sloane Sykes
Ambrosia Headlington-Bear	Jacinta’s mother
Silas Wiley	Mayor of Downsfordvale
Ursula	Silas’s personal assistant
Stanley Frost	Owner of Wood End