Elle
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Elladine Agnes Tranter Lambert |
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Wheeling, dealing |
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| Gender | Female |
| Date of birth | c. 1979[ch. 15] |
Elle is a wealthy businesswoman, socialite, and aristocrat. The head of the Lambert estate, she uses her considerable wealth to bankroll Dorley Hall and Peckinville, among other operations.
Before Dorley Hall
Elle grew up on her family's Cambridge estate, where she made the acquaintance of a series of serving women in her grandparents' wing of the house, each of whom would disappear after a short time. She eventually came to learn the truth behind these girls' disappearances from a serving girl named Kelly, who was murdered soon after for revealing the secret: all of the serving women in the Lamberts' estate were Dorley girls. Elle convinced her grandfather that she was aroused by the secret of the Dorley girls, thereby keeping her knowledge secret until she was able to have him killed.
Not long afterwards, Elle arranged a meeting with Beatrice Quinn and made a partnership with her to oust Grandmother and seize Dorley Hall for themselves.
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The coup
Upon the death of her grandparents, she inherited a controlling interest of the Lambert family's holdings, including Dorley Hall.
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After the coup
At some point after Beatrice took over Dorley Hall, Elle was asked to stop her trysts with the Dorley girls. She realized in hindsight that the power imbalance made any such relations coercive.
Christine described her as someone who "looks at you like a piece of meat, but one she wants to rub all over herself" [ch. 37], which suggests that she is not good at hiding her chaser tendencies.
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Trivia
She wears size seven boots.[ch. 35]