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Is Sir Impey Biggs gay? The Dowager Duchess says he is "the handsomest man in England, and no woman will ever care tuppence for him" (or words to that effect), and yet he doesn't seem unhappy to be thus spurned. Moreover, he has a flamboyant theatricality about him, especially in court, and actors have traditionally tended to be Friends of Dorothy. It does seem unlikely that an extremely good-looking, rich, charismatic and successful heterosexual male should not have women trailing after him.

There are, of course, not merely one but two lesbian couples in Unnatural Death, but I can't offhand think of any gay men (unless you count Philip Boyes' irritatingly devoted friend, whose name I've forgotten). I would like to think that Sir Impey tips the balance.