Christian de Roche

Christian de Roche was a distinguished guest of the Duke of Wellington. He visited the Crystal Palace in 1851. He was an Emissary of Louis-Napoléon, the President of France and Christian Griswold attempted to kill him for it. The Eighth Doctor saved his life by bringing him into his TARDIS.

While the Doctor checked outside to make sure the assassin was gone because the scanner was not working, de Roche and his wife Madeline accidentally dematerialised in the TARDIS. While the pair were missing, to avoid a serious controversy with France over the missing French emissary and his wife, the Duke of Wellington convinced Charlotte Pollard to publicly pose as Madeline de Roche to create the illusion that they were staying with him. (AUDIO: Other Lives)