# The Great Impersonation — Character guide

> Key figures in The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim.

- [Sir Everard Dominey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/everard_dominey.md): Dominey steps off the train into a life he barely recognizes: a wife kept behind locked doors, a housekeeper who calls him the murderer of her son, and a neighborhood certain he killed Roger Unthank in a fight over Rosam
- [Mr. Seaman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/seaman.md): Seaman installs himself in Dominey's life with the ease of a man who has been there before, telling mining anecdotes at the Carlton and charming Mangan over wine. But his real work is quieter: he misses trains on purpose
- [Rosamund Dominey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/rosamund_dominey.md): Rosamund lives behind the care of Mrs. Unthank, tolerated by no one else, fragile in a way that makes her husband's tenderness feel both genuine and strategic. She pleads with him not to rush her, then asks the question 
- [Princess Eiderstrom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/stephanie_eiderstrom.md): The Princess mistakes Dominey for Sigismund Devinter, his Oxford double, and refuses to accept his denials — she has loved Leopold Von Ragastein, she says, and this man wears his face. She tests him with memory, with old
- [Baron Leopold Von Ragastein](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/baron_leopold_von_ragastein.md): Leopold exists in the novel first as an absence and an accusation: the man Stephanie loved six years ago, the man whose mannerisms Dominey does not quite reproduce, the man she half-suspects is still alive somewhere in A
- [Mr. John Lambert Mangan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/john_lambert_mangan.md): Mangan meets Dominey at the station, steers him through the Unthank confrontation, and pours the sherry while gently confirming that everyone in the county believes his client killed a man. He is the reader's guide to th
- [Prince Terniloff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/prince_terniloff.md): Terniloff moves through Carlton House Terrace drawing rooms and snowy shooting parties as the polished face of German interests in England, a man who genuinely believes in peace and says so in private despatches to Potsd
- [Caroline](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/caroline.md): Caroline belongs to the household's shadow-life, bound to Lady Dominey's care and to memories of the night Roger Unthank vanished. Her presence unsettles the returned Everard, because she alone might notice the small wro
- [Roger Unthank](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/roger_unthank.md): Roger was a local man whose infatuation with Rosamund Felbrigg curdled into madness after she married Everard, and his disappearance the night of their violent encounter left a stain on the Dominey name that the whole ne
- [Mrs. Unthank](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/mrs_unthank.md): Mrs. Unthank holds the only position that lets her stay near the family she blames for her son's death, and she uses it without flinching, calling Sir Everard a murderer to his face in his own hall. Her bitterness is not
- [Middleton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/middleton.md): Middleton is the butler who kept the house standing through years of absence and rumour, loyal to the name of Dominey even when there was no Dominey to serve. His knowledge of the family's habits, its cellars, and its se
- [Eddy Pelham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/eddy_pelham.md): Friend of Sir Everard from his African days, with a roguish charm.
- [Doctor Schmidt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/doctor_schmidt.md): German physician involved in the espionage plot.
- [Johann Wolff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/johann_wolff.md): German agent working under Seaman's orders.
- [Doctor Harrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/harrison.md): Local physician attending to Rosamund's health.
- [The Kaiser](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/kaiser_wilhelm.md): German Emperor referenced as the ultimate authority behind the plot.
- [The Duchess](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_great_impersonation_se/characters/duchess_of_.md): Unnamed duchess appearing in high-society scenes.

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