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Elizabeth Chance

Played by Kika Markham

Fact title Fact data
Date of birth
11 April 1860
Place of birth
Bicester
Age at outbreak of WW1
54
Address
Saffron Waldon, Essex

adoptive mother, Elizabeth Chance makes the treacherous journey from Darjeeling, India to deliver bad news. Having long internalised the family’s darkest secrets as the stoical, unquestioning wife of colonial Colonel Chance, she instinctively attempts to instill a sense of conjugal duty on her daughter.

Beneath her austere, Victorian veneer however, Elizabeth is an unexpected diplomat in every sense.