Characters in Sorcerer to the Crown

Zacharias Wythe

England's first Black Sorcerer Royal, a solemn and kind scholar who inherits the post under suspicion and must find out why English magic is running dry.

Also in The True Queen

Prunella Gentleman

An ambitious, impulsive orphan of mixed heritage with a powerful, unschooled talent for magic, determined to escape a school for gentlewitches.

Also in The True Queen

Mak Genggang

A formidable Malay witch whose arrival in England shakes up the magical establishment; blunt, powerful and nobody's subordinate.

Also in The True Queen

Miss Henrietta Stapleton

A proper young Englishwoman and Prunella's schoolmate, whose own magical ability is a family secret.

Also in The True Queen

Sir Stephen Wythe

The late Sorcerer Royal who bought Zacharias as a boy and raised him as his heir, and whose death opens the story.