Guinevere Hoult

Guinevere, as she appeared in Nightshade

**Guinevere Hoult** was a companion of the Eighth Doctor, who was trying to get her back home.

She began life as a freighter pilot from the 2100s, until she accidentally entered a rift, causing her controls to malfunction and trapping her in Arthur's World, where she ended up meeting and marrying King Arthur. She eventually met the Eighth Doctor and Raine, and, soon after a skirmish that resulted in the death of her husband, became the sole ruler of Arthur's World. After they arrived a second time, she revealed her true origins to them, and was taken onboard the TARDIS by the Doctor.

Her travels with the Doctor came to an end when he managed to get the TARDIS to her intended destination, with her leaving him sickened by his manipulative ways and by all the death she had seen.

## Biography

### Prior to becoming Queen

Guinevere was born in the late 21st Century. She was named after the legendary queen of England. (PROSE: *The Green Knight*)

Her parents were not in her life often. She spent much of her childhood at friends' houses, as it was easier on everyone involved. She still harboured a deep love for her father, despite his absence in her life. (TV: *Transit*)

At some point, she became a freighter pilot for the Sol Transit System. During one of the trips, she accidentally opened a rift to Arthur's World and went through it. When trying to get back, she ended up jamming the controls and crashing her ship. (TV: *The Green Knight*) She was presumed dead by most at the company, though her position was kept until proof of her death could be found. (TV: *Transit*)

At some point, she met Arthur Pendragon and fell in love with him. After some time, they married, and became King and Queen of Camelot. Their marriage lasted for roughly three years, during which she had occasional romantic flings with one of the King's knights, Ancelyn. (TV: *The Herald*)

### Meeting the Doctor

During one banquet, the TARDIS materialised in the middle of the room, and the Doctor, calling himself Merlin, stepped out alognside his companion Raine Cunningham. Guinevere prevented Arthur from throwing the Doctor in the dungeons, instead integrating him into the King's court. She wished Arthur well on his search for Excalibur, and in the meantime helped rally the troops to combat the S'rax forces. When Arthur decided to send his troops out to help the Doctor, Guinevere volunteered herself to help, despite her lack of military experience. During the ensuing battle, she was stabbed by Mordred to anger Ancelyn, and was rushed to an army hospital. The Destroyer appeared to her in the guise of the Doctor, and convinced her that the next person to walk into the tent would kill her. She shot the next person who walked in, who happened to be her husband Arthur, killing him.

Once the battle was over, the Doctor recommended that Guinevere rule on her own, despite her having killed the previous monarch. (TV: *The Herald*) Her tenure as monarch before the Doctor revealed himself yet again lasted roughly six months. (PROSE: *The Green Knight*)

Guinevere sent a distress call out to the Doctor to bring him to Arthur's World. When he and Raine arrived, she explained that a Green Knight had been spotted at several points throughout the Kingdom, and that he seemed to survive Ancelyn decapitating him, and commandeered a group of strange soldiers, who happened to be Sontarans. When Brigadier Bambera and her UNIT reinforcements arrived, she privately told Bambera that she would have asked for the Doctor's help whether the Green Knight had been there or not. Guinevere went to parlay with the Green Knight, and learned of the Grail. When the Doctor worked out that the Green Knight was testing their deceit, Guinevere came clean about her origins and her own ulterior motives in asking for the Doctor's help. She helped Bambera, the Doctor and Raine form an attack strategy, and personally led her own troops into battle with the Sontarans. (TV: *The Green Knight*)

She helped the Doctor recover from his grief in the months after Raine's death. (PROSE: *The Green Knight*) Once the Doctor had fully recovered, he offered her the chance to travel with him, an offer which she accepted. The Doctor instructed Ancelyn to keep Guinevere's departure a secret to his past self, whilst electing Lancelot to become the next ruler. (TV: *The Green Knight*)

### Travels with the Doctor

During the Blitz, Guinevere helped Detective Cody McBride in solving the mystery of the Limehouse Lurker. She was attacked by the Lurker, but rescued and then kidnapped by a Nazi general. She was taken to a Cyber-factory on Jersey to be converted into a Cyberman, but was rescued by the Doctor in time, escaping with him to a boat commandeered by McBride. (TV: *Illegal Alien*)

In December 1968, they landed near Crook Marsham where she met with Robin Yeadon. She tried to convince the Doctor not to retire. She went to the radio telescope nearby and saw a dead body there. She tried to persuade the Doctor to help with the mysterious goings-on. When Robin's stepfather Lawrence Yeadon died, she consoled him. She witnessed the attack on Jill Mason. After the Doctor arrived, she was still being attacked. After the Doctor defeated the Sentience, she relayed her desperation to get back to her home century. (TV: *Nightshade*)

Guinevere was reunited with Brigadier Bambera when investigating some strange goings-on at a university. She came up with the initial concept behind the antivirus to the Rani's Network. (TV: *Network*)

On the planet Tethrak, Guinevere witnessed one of the final battles of the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, evacuating the natives away from their city. She announced her intention to go after the Imperials at a safe distance, and discovered their plan to create a missile that would wipe out both the Renegades and the natives. She was horrified when the Doctor revealed the destruction of Tethrak to be a fixed point in time, with the Imperials as the sole survivors. Against the Doctor's wishes, she warned the natives, and also warned the Renegades under the guise of an "anonymous benefactor". When the Doctor diverted the Renegades' response missile, Guinevere was devastated and shouted at the Doctor of how he could have saved the natives, being unable to accept that at least one could not have been saved. She allowed the Doctor to set course for another planet to try and act as an apology to Guinevere, though she was reluctant to agree to the offer. (TV: *Destruction of the Daleks*)

### Leaving the Doctor

The Doctor brought her and the TARDIS to the planet Heaven in the year 2570. Guinevere met a young Traveller by the name of Jan Rydd and fell in love with him, announcing her intentions to the Doctor to stay in the future to be with him. Along with a psychic named Christopher, she helped free the Doctor from being trapped in Puterspace by the Vacuum Church and wanted Jan to travel with her in the TARDIS. However, Jan was infected by Hoothi fibres. Through the Doctor's manipulations, Jan put Guinevere to sleep with a drug and tried taking a shuttle on his own to the Hoothi sphere, but Máire woke Guinevere. They followed Jan.

On board the shuttle, Máire betrothed Guinevere and Jan to be wed. Thinking that they would set the shuttle on a collision course with the sphere, Guinevere and Máire ejected their pods. Jan instead ignited the sphere with his pyrokinesis, killing three of the four Hoothi and sacrificing himself.

Landing on Heaven, Guinevere spoke to the part of the Hoothi group mind, killing the last Hoothi and freeing the dead minds from the group mind. Angered by him causing Jan's death, Guinevere demanded that the Doctor stop playing games with her, and take her home. (TV: *Love and War*)

The Doctor finally landed on Earth in 2109, taking Guinevere home. There, they met Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart, a descendant of the Doctor's long-time associate the Brigadier. She learned that she had been presumed dead, but she was still employed, as there was no conrete proof of her death. She also learned she had been gone for four months. Helping the Doctor and Bernice to stop the destruction of the Sol Transit System by "Fred", the AI ruler of another dimension, Guinevere left to continue her job, not even saying a word to the Doctor as she left him, utterly disgusted by him. (TV: *Transit*)

## Personality

Guinevere was a woman of tight moral scruple. She hated the thought of lives being lost, especially those closest to her, (TV: *The Herald*, *Love and War*) or those under direct threat from more evil foes. (TV: *The Herald, Nightshade, Destruction of the Daleks*) She was keen to keep people alive for as long as possible, and sympathised with those who had recently lost loved ones, (TV: *The Green Knight*, *Love and War*) caring for the Doctor for months after Raine's death. (PROSE: *The Green Knight*) Nonetheless, she was a cunning strategist, able to think up plans in a relatively short amount of time. (TV: *The Green Knight*) She also proved herself an excellent warrior, taking on Morgaine's forces (TV: *The Herald*), the Sontarans (TV: *The Green Knight*) and the Daleks. (TV: *Destruction of the Daleks*)

She seemed to fall in love easily, (TV: *The Herald*, *Love and War*) something she described as a "bad luck charm". (TV: *Transit*)

Whilst early on in her travels with the Doctor, Guinevere described the Doctor as her guru. (TV: *Nightshade*) She did have some respect for the Doctor, believing him to be willing to help anyone (TV: *The Green Knight*), and trusted him to a fault, allowing the Destroyer to manipulate her into thinking he was the Doctor (TV: *The Herald*), though this error may have been caused by a wound going septic. (PROSE: *The Herald*). However, she despised his manipulative tendencies, believing he was "throwing away lives in the name of the greater good". (TV: *Love and War*) When his manipulating caused planet-wide genocide, she questioned his standing as a hero to the universe, believing that a real hero would have found a way to save the natives of Tethrak, (TV: *Destruction of the Daleks*), and even telling the Doctor that she hated him after he killed Jan. (TV: *Love and War*) However, she privately admitted to Bernice Summerfield that she still believed the Doctor a good man, and that he just needed to be put on the right path. (TV: *Transit*)

Despite feeling she had a duty to her subjects, she maintained a deep desire to go home. (TV: *The Green Knight*) She relayed this desire to the Doctor many times, (TV: *The Green Knight*, *Nightshade*, *Destruction of the Daleks*, *Love and War*) and expressed some annoyance at his seeming inability to do so. (TV: *Destruction of the Daleks*) Nonetheless, she did marvel at some of the sights she saw whilst with the Doctor. (TV: *Nightshade*, *Love and War*)

## Appearances

### Season 29

* *The Green Knight*
* *Illegal Alien*
* *Nightshade*

### Season 30

* *Network*
* *Destruction of the Daleks*
* *Love and War*
* *Transit*