Robert Read

Sensitive and always the gentleman, Robert Read is the young lover of Lord Edmund Allingham.

He is introduced in the first episode of season two when he and Lord Allingham shared a look while Lord Kilmartin was insulting Bert during the annual race.

Robert loves Edmund but wishes that things could be different as he once said to him. 'Are we filthy queers or men in love?' This led to them breaking up. In between Edmund losing the 1923 election and winning the 1924 one though, they reconciled.

He is also a very good friend of Harry's (Lady Harriet Allingham (nee Kilmartin) ).

Nothing else is known about him.