| Col Harry | Ashburnham | Edward's father. |
| Edward | Ashburnham | Captain of the Fourteenth Hussars. Aka: Teddy. |
| Leonora | Ashburnham | Edward's wife. |
| Mrs | Ashburnham | Edward's mother. |
| Mr | Bagshawe | One of the hotels guests. |
| Major | Basil | Edward's superior officer. |
| Mrs | Basil | One of Edward's mistresses. |
| Rodney | Bayham | Leonora's lover. |
| General | Braddock | Army general from Great Britain. |
| Mr | Brand | One of the couples who's having a divorce. |
| Mrs | Brand | One of the couples who's having a divorce. |
| Martin | Bucer | German Protestant reformer. |
| Florence | Dowell | One of Edward's mistresses. Aka: Florry. |
| John | Dowell | Florence's husband. |
| Dr | Hauptmann | Edward's doctor. |
| Colonel | Hervey | Edward's superior officer. |
| Emily | Hurlbird | Florence's aunt. |
| Jean | Hurlbird | Florence's late cousin. |
| John | Hurlbird | Florence's uncle. |
| Reggie | Hurlbird | Florence's cousin. |
| Florence | Hurlbird, Sr. | Florence's aunt. |
| Genghis | Khan | Founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. |
| Miss | Lupton | Mr Brand's mistress. |
| Martin | Luther | German professor of theology, seminal figure in Protestant Reformation. |
| Mrs | Luton | Nancy's chaperon. |
| Maisie | Maidan | One of Edward's mistresses. |
| | Mumford | One of the Ashburnhams' tenants. |
| William | Penn | English real estate entrepreneur and philosopher. |
| Col | Powys | Leonora's father. |
| Mrs | Powys | Leonora's mother. |
| Colonel | Rufford | Nancy's father. |
| Mrs | Rufford | Leonora's dearest friend. |
| Mrs | Rufford | Nancy's mother. |
| Nancy | Rufford | Leonora's only friend's child. |
| Monsieur | Schontz | Hotel proprietor. |
| Baron Idigon | von Lelöffel | German Captain. |
| Mrs | Whelan | One of the hotels guests. |
| Huldrych | Zwingli | Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland. |
| Annie | | One of Edward's mistresses. |
| Bunny | | Maisie's husband. |
| Carter | | John Dowell's second-nephew. |
| Charles I | | Monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. |
| Edward VII | | Former King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India. |
| Henry VIII | | King of England from 1509 until 1547. |
| Jimmy | | Florence's former lover. |
| Julius | | John Dowell's servant. |
| La Dolciquita | | Spanish dancer. One of Edward's mistresses. |
| Mary | | Carter's fiancé. |
| Selmes | | The boy whom Edward gave the horse to. |
