of Bavaria - Empress consort of Austria. Flashman dances with her at a ball. Johann Strauss II - Conducts the band while Flashman and Empress Elisabeth dance. Lord Granville - The British Foreign Secretary. Garnet Wolseley - The British field marshal. Charles George Gordon - The British major-general. The Subtleties of Baccarat Fictional characters Flashman Elspeth - His adoring and possibly unfaithful wife. Historical characters Prince of Wales - Future King Edward VII. Flashman appears to know him well and claims to have shared his lovers, Lillie Langtry and Daisy Brooke. He also suspects Elspeth of having "been at grips in a potting-shed at Windsor in '59" with him. William Gordon-Cumming - Central figure in the scandal. His similarities with Flashman are not lost on the latter, who eyes him with some jealousy as a younger version (and more authentic military hero) of himself. Lord Coleridge - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and judge at the trial. Charles Russell - British statesman who represents the defendants at the trial. H. H. Asquith - Future Prime Minister who represents the defendants at the trial. Flashman and the Tiger Fictional characters Flashman Elspeth Tiger Jack Moran - Flashman meets him after the Battle of Isandlwana on the way to Rorke's Drift, and describes him as "a killing gentleman." Selina Flashman - She is Flashman's nineteen-year-old granddaughter. With uncharacteristic sentimentality Flashman is prepared to spend much of his fortune in preserving "Selly's" innocence from the licentious Moran. This proves to be wasted effort when he discovers that she has become one of the Prince of Wales' mistresses. Sherlock Holmes Doctor Watson Historical characters Henry Pulleine - Brevet lieutenant colonel at the Battle of Isandlwana. Anthony Durnford - Lieutenant colonel at the Battle of Isandlwana. John Chard - British lieutenant of the Royal Engineers and commanding officer at Rorke's Drift. Lord Chelmsford - A British general. Gonville Bromhead - British lieutenant at Rorke's Drift. Oscar Wilde - A playwright. Edward VII George Smith - British army chaplain References 1999 British novels Sherlock Holmes pastiches Flashman novels HarperCollins books Novels set in the 1870s Novels set in the 1880s Novels set in the 1890s Cultural depictions of Empress Elisabeth of Austria Cultural depictions of Franz Joseph I of Austria Cultural depictions of Edward VII Cultural depictions of Ulysses S. Grant Cultural depictions of Otto von Bismarck Cultural depictions of Oscar Wilde Baccarat