Lou Gish (27 May 1967 - 20 February 2006) was an English stage, film and television actress. She was born as Louise Curram in 1967, the elder daughter of the actor Roland Curram and the actress Sheila Gish. Her partner at her death was Nicholas Rowe. She acted with her sister Kay Curram in "King Lear" at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2005. She was raised in London and originally saw herself as an artist rather than an actress.

Norman McLeod Rogers, MA, B.Litt., BCL, (July 25 1894 - June 10 1940) was a member of parliament for Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a cabinet minister in the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. He was also an early biographer of King. Rogers was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and served in the military during World War I. He was educated at Acadia University and in 1919 he was elected a Rhodes Scholar.

Dr Lynette Nusbacher is a Canadian military historian, a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and a talking head for many historical documentaries. Born in New York City, she grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario. She went to school in Rochester, and took a BA Honours in history and economics at the University of Toronto in 1988, working there in a variety of administrative posts for 6 years. She holds graduate degrees from the Royal Military College of Canada and Oxford.

Hala Khalaf is a freelance journalist whose writing has focused on how culture influences the daily lives of people living around the globe. Her experience, knowledge and global insights belie the fact that she is only 24 years old. Born in Kuwait, Hala began her journalism career in Canada at the University of Waterloo where she worked as a reporter, photographer, proof-reader and eventually editor of the campus newspaper Imprint .