Lord Charles Cranleigh, or Charles Percival Beauchamp, was the Tenth Marquess of Cranleigh. He was the son of Madge, Lady Cranleigh, the younger brother of George Cranleigh and the fiancé and later husband of Ann Talbot.
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Charles Cranleigh (TV: Black Orchid) or Charles Percival Beauchamp (PROSE: Black Orchid) was a skilled cricket player and asked for a doctor who worked for his old school friend Smutty Thomas to help him win a game at Cranleigh Hall in Oxfordshire on 11 June 1925. He did not get the doctor whom he had wanted, but found the Fifth Doctor to be an excellent substitute.
After two of his servants, Digby and James, were murdered, Charles mistakenly believed that the Doctor was responsible since he refused to identify himself and discovered from Smutty that the doctor he was expecting missed the train. He later apologised to the Doctor for his accusations.
He believed his brother George to be long dead, but found him mentally and physically scarred by Amazon natives in the jungle where the black orchid had been found. Charles offered the Doctor the gift of a book on the flower after George's funeral. (TV: Black Orchid)
Charles and Ann were married in 1926. The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka attended the reception at Cranleigh Hall. (PROSE: The Sands of Time)
