# The Enchanted Castle — Character guide

> Key figures in The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit.

- [Gerald](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/gerald.md): Gerald is the eldest of three siblings stranded at Kathleen's school when measles ruins their Hampshire holiday plans, and he appoints himself the brains of the operation — signing himself 'Gerald de Sherlock Holmes' whe
- [Mabel Prowse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/mabel_prowse.md): Mabel is the cousin whose measles kept the others from home, and she enters their circle as an outsider hungry for company and for a part in the game. Her wish to be noticed — and then to be invisible — turns her into th
- [Jimmy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/jimmy.md): Jimmy is the small brother who gets called 'Mademoiselle' by the others and who says exactly what he thinks, especially when a princess starts showing off. He is stubborn, literal-minded, and quick to call out a trick, w
- [Kathleen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/kathleen.md): Kathleen is the girl whose school becomes the children's makeshift home when measles scatters their plans, and she is the one who decorates the rooms with marigolds and proposes they write a book or invent a play. She is
- [Lord Yalding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/lord_yalding.md): Lord Yalding is the grown-up whose ancestral home the children stumble into, a man saddled with a grand house he cannot quite afford and a family legacy he does not fully understand. He is decent, a little melancholy, an
- [Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/johnson.md): Johnson is the household retainer at Yalding Towers, a man who knows the estate's secrets and keeps his own counsel while the children blunder through its rooms. He is formal, watchful, and more sympathetic to the young 
- [Betty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/betty.md): Betty is the cousin whose early arrival at the family home was meant to complete the children's holiday plans; instead her measles scatters them into improvised lodgings at Kathleen's school. She never appears onstage, y
- [Phoebus Apollo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/phoebus_apollo.md): Phoebus is one of the statues in the castle grounds who comes alive under the ring's magic, and he treats the children as charming curiosities rather than intruders. He is friendly and gallant, but his casual suggestion 
- [Scratch Cat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/scratch_cat.md): Kathleen is the only girl among the three children, called Cathy when her brothers are pleased and Scratch Cat when they are not, and she is the one whose school they retreat to after Cousin Betty's measles ruins the ori
- [The Stranger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/the_stranger.md): The Stranger arrives in the children's world with an unsettling familiarity about the castle and its enchantments, hinting at knowledge they have only begun to stumble toward. Where the statues are playful and the ring i
- [Rapunzel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/rapunzel.md): A fairy-tale princess brought to life by the children's wishes.
- [Ugly-Wugly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/ugly_wugly.md): A living scarecrow-like creature created by the children's magic.
- [Ugly-Wuglies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/ugly_wuglies.md): A group of magical creatures brought to life by the children.
- [Auntie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_enchanted_castle_se/characters/auntie.md): The children's aunt who sends them to the castle.

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