Within the Housekeeping Hotel reside the Boardom family—aristocrats of impeccable manners, renowned for their prize boars and a name that belies their curiosity. Born into a life of rigid tradition, they are drawn instead to the hotel’s timeless halls, where oddities flourish and wonder offers a welcome escape from formality.
The Aristocrats of Boardom
The Boardom Collection
Duchess Daphne Boardom
Duchess Daphne is a distinguished benefactor of the Housekeeping Hotel, where she delights in the gentle unraveling of time, order, and expectation. Though reluctantly impeccably mannered, she harbours a fondness for misadventure, quietly funding Ophelia’s Seafaring Club and indulging the Soaking Society’s more speculative research. To Daphne, a mystery is not something to be solved too quickly—only encouraged, well supplied, and allowed to surprise everyone involved.
Duke Cecil Boardom
Duke Cecil Boardom, the husband of Duchess Daphne, is known for his steadfast composure and unwavering sense of duty. The duke quietly oversees the dignified chaos of the Housekeeping Hotel with a calm authority that borders on mythic. Though reserved in demeanour, he possesses a dry wit and an unexpected softness, especially toward those rare creatures and curious happenings that seem to follow his family wherever they go.
Lady Lily Boardom
Lady Lily, the daughter of Daphne and Cecil is known for her bright curiosity and her habit of wandering the hotel’s corridors in search of new mysteries and odd occurrences to note in her ever-growing journal. Creatures of all kinds—especially the purple octopuses—seem to follow her as if enchanted by her gentle enthusiasm.
Beauregard Boardom
The beloved family hound, Beauregard is a retired boar hoarder famed for his remarkable ability to track down—and proudly stash away—every embroidered boar he finds. Now living a life of leisure at the Housekeeping Hotel, he roams the halls with noble purpose and the occasional urge to organize the guest slippers.