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Elizabeth Chance
Played by Kika Markham
| Fact title | Fact data |
|---|---|
| Date of birth |
11 April 1860
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| Place of birth |
Bicester
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| Age at outbreak of WW1 |
54
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| Address |
Saffron Waldon, Essex
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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.
