# John Badge — The Fifth Queen character guide

> John Badge in The Fifth Queen by Ford Madox Ford.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Badge, old Badge, John Badge the Younger, John

**First appearance:** 0000-part-i-the-coming

## Who they are

A servant or minor functionary in the Howard household.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fifth_queen_se/chapters/i)

Master printer John Badge the Younger, suspicious of Udal and protective of Margot.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_fifth_queen_se/chapters/i)

The printer, gloomy and abstracted, who laments the lack of honor shown to the Queen and rejoices at news of her capture.

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