Vanda Chevenix-Gore

In the novella Dead Man's Mirror, Lady Vanda Elizabeth Chevenix-Gore (née Arbuthnot) was the wife of Sir Gervase Chevenix-Gore, and the adopted mother of Ruth. She is the eldest daughter of Colonel Frederick Arbuthnot.

She is excentric, and believes she is the reincarnation of the female Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut and a priestess from Atlantis. She was against Gervase's intention to have Ruth marrying Hugo Trent. Because she feared that due to them to being first cousins biologically (while Ruth doesn't know that and believes she and Hugo are only adopted first cousins) they would end up with 'batty children', she was on Ruth's side.