Charity Westlock

Charity Westlock is lady's maid for Rosa Aubrey-Beecham. She featured in A Weekend at Grandfather's.

 Charity has been Rosa’s lady’s maid for many years; she was employed by the Allanshaws, and came with Rosa when she married. She is a confidant and friend to her mistress, and is sometimes the only person to know her real opinions on things; this circumstance has also resulted in her inadvertently picking up the odds and ends of an education in Rosa’s favoured subjects.

 She is fussy, sensible, and likes things just so. She has never been known to panic. She is married and has two young children, and is unhappy about having to be away from them for so long. In the middle of the 1850s, after the death of her sister, she spent several years enamoured with spiritualism, séances, mesmerism, and the writings of Swedenborg, but got over this a few years ago and is now quite embarrassed by mentions of it.