List of Minor Blackadder Characters - Lord and Lady Whiteadder

Lord and Lady Whiteadder

Nathaniel, Lord Whiteadder (Daniel Thorndike) and Lady Whiteadder (Miriam Margolyes) are Blackadder's Puritanical aunt and uncle in the episode Beer. Blackadder describes them as "the most fanatical Puritans in England" and is pleased to get a message that they are coming to his house to discuss their "whopping great inheritance." Unfortunately, Blackadder's meeting with them coincides with a drinking competition Melchett and some friends have challenged him to. He is, therefore, forced to hold the two dinners in separate rooms.

The two, mostly Lady Whiteadder, are comically revealed to be very devout, dressing in white clothing with helmets crowned with crosses, and wearing four large crosses each. Both are exceedingly condescending, with Lady Whiteadder denouncing almost every homely comfort as works of Beelzebub, from chairs (at home, Nathaniel sits on a spike, while she sits on him), the mashing of turnips (for she claims Satan mashes them out of envy) and heating (because "cold is God's way of telling us to burn more Catholics!"). Despite these maniacal beliefs, she is strangely delighted after Baldrick presents her with a phallus-shaped turnip. To make matters worse, Nathaniel has (reluctantly) taken a vow of silence, meaning Lady Whiteadder dominates the conversation, and repeatedly slaps Edmund across the face whenever he brings up a subject she disapproves of. Eventually, they discover Blackadder's drinking party and leave (though not before Lord Whiteadder renounces his vow of silence and thanks Blackadder), only to run into the party in the main hall. Eventually, they join in on the party and, by morning, are as hungover as everyone at the party. After hearing the word "luck," Lady Whiteadder emerges from beneath a drunken Queenie's skirt, laughs loudly and drunkenly proclaims that the word sounds rude because "it sounds almost exactly like fu-".