| | 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. |
