| The | Queen | Queen of Windsor. Protagonist. aka: Queen Elizabeth II. |
| Jean | Genet | Writer. |
| | | La Marseillaise - The national anthem of France. |
| | | House of Windsor - A royal house in United Kingdom. |
| The | President | France's president. |
| Mr. | Hutchings | A driver. Book borrower at the Travelling Library. |
| Norman | Seakins | Book borrower at the Travelling Library. |
| Cecil | Beaton | Used to always be at the Travelling Library. Now a writer. |
| Ivy Compton | Burnett | Writer. |
| Kevin | Scatchard | The Queen's private secretary. |
| Dame | Ivy | Writer. |
| George | Eliot | English novelist. |
| Henry | James | Writer. |
| E. M. | Foster | Writer. |
| John | Masefield | Poet. |
| Walter | de la Mare | Writer. |
| T.S. | Eliot | Essayist. |
| Joseph | Priestley | Theologian. |
| Philip | Larkin | Poet. |
| Ted | Hugh | Poet. |
| Robert | Frost | Poet. |
| Miss | Havisham | A character from Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. |
| Grant | | The Queen's young footman. |
| Anita | Brookner | Writer. |
| Ian | McEwan | Writer. |
| A. S. | Byatt | Writer. |
| Dylan | Thomas | Poet. |
| John Cowper | Powys | Philosopher. |
| Jan | Morris | Historian and writer. |
| Kilvert | | A vicar author who wrote a diary. |
| Lewis | Carroll | Writer. |
| Piers | | The Queen's devoted servant. |
| Elspeth | | The Queen's devoted servant. |
| Tristam | | The Queen's devoted servant. |
| Shandy | | The Queen's devoted servant. |
| Giles | | The Queen's devoted servant. |
| Andy | McNab | Writer. |
| Joanna | Trollope | Writer. |
| Virginia | Woolf | Writer. |
| Charles | Dickens | Writer. |
| Vikram | Seth | Writer. |
| Apropos | | The Duke. |
| Sylvia | Plath | Writer. |
| Lauren | Bacall | Actress. |
| Winifred | Holtby | Writer. |
| Dr. | Johnson | Writer. aka: Samuel Johnson. |
| Alice | | The Queen's maid. |
| William | Thackeray | Writer. |
| Charlotte | Bronte | Writer. |
| Thomas | Hardy | Writer. |
| Archbishop | | The archbishop of Canterbury. |
| Philip | Larkin | Poet. |
| Alice | Munro | Short story writer. |
| Mary | Renault | Writer. |
| Denton | Welch | Norman's favorite author. |
| Anthony | Powell | Writer. |
| Honore | de Balzac | Writer. |
| Ivan | Turgenev | Writer. |
| Henry | Fielding | Writer. |
| Joseph | Conrad | Writer. |
| Henry | James | Writer. |
| Jane | Austen | Writer. |
| Lord David | Cecil | The Queen's friend. |
| Captain | Crouchback | Captain in the evacuation of Crete. |
| Gerald | | Equerry of The Queen. |
| William | Shakespeare | Poet. |
| Mr. | MacMillan | The Prime Minister. |
| Sir Claude | Pollington | Formerly worked in the Royal Service. |
| Sue | Lawley | A broadcaster. Claude's former colleague. |
| Queen | Mary | Former Queen of United Kingdom. |
| George | V | Claude's former boss. |
| Edward | VIII | Former King of United Kingdom. |
| Queen | Elizabeth | The Queen's mother. |
| Dick | Francis | Writer. |
| Louis | XV | Former King of France. |
| Emily | Dickinson | Poet. |
| Henry | VIII | Queen Elizabeth's uncle. The Duke of Windsor. |
| Queen | Victoria | The Queen's great grandmother. |