Anthony

Anthony is Myfanwy Thomas’s bodyguard and a recurring member of her security detail, accompanying her from an early-morning journey to Whitby to later field work. His presence is practical as well as protective: he carries her luggage, helps secure dangerous situations, and is among the Retainers who stand between Myfanwy and the threats surrounding the Checquy. His death in the reception attack gives that loyalty its final, costly consequence.

Identity and Duties

Anthony is assigned to guard Myfanwy during her trip to Whitby, where she is overseeing the final preparations for an operation. When he meets her before dawn, he takes her briefcase, garment bag, and satchel to the limousine and makes sure she is settled before taking the front passenger seat. Myfanwy notices that he has been waiting in the winter cold, and feels guilty that she does not know how long he has stood there. The small exchange establishes the routine intimacy of protective work: his care is expressed through readiness and practical attention rather than conversation.

Anthony is described as hulking, and Myfanwy later calls him her “hulking sumo Scot of an honor guard” while arranging transport to meet Lisa Constanopoulos. He is enlisted alongside the staff and drivers for that hurried itinerary, one more sign that his role extends beyond a fixed post. In Myfanwy’s field operations, he is the physically imposing presence attached to her movements and security.

Field Service and Incidents

At the Whitby farmhouse, Anthony’s readiness becomes explicit when Noel Bittner bursts into the room. Anthony produces two submachine guns, while Chevalier Gubbins’s bodyguard, Jonas, reveals a concealed shotgun. Myfanwy tells the guards to stop rather than letting the confrontation immediately become an armed response. Anthony’s action shows how rapidly the security detail can shift from accompanying the group to preparing for violence, while Myfanwy’s order shows that she retains authority over how that force is used.

Later, as Myfanwy and her companions face the dragon, Monica Jarvis-Reed reports that events have gone badly. Myfanwy orders Pawn Breeshey Cahill to close the shutters, cutting off the view through the mirrored glass before the impact reaches them. Anthony is not singled out as the person who takes that decision, but his place among Myfanwy’s guards situates him within the protective group caught up in the operation’s danger. The evidence presents his service as part of a wider security effort, not as a solitary action detached from the Checquy team.

Anthony also accompanies Myfanwy during her hurried preparations to meet Lisa Constanopoulos. In the limousine, he is made to serve as an easel for a long strip of paper displaying the timeline of the Greek woman’s life, while Ingrid Woodhouse spreads documents across Myfanwy’s lap. Myfanwy faces backward and is carsick; Anthony’s presence is folded into the team’s improvised working arrangements. The moment gives his protective role a comic, everyday counterpart to the armed emergencies: he is not only a guard at the edge of events but a person the team recruits into whatever task the immediate situation requires.

Service Within Myfanwy’s Team

Myfanwy’s account repeatedly connects Anthony with the close-knit group that travels and works around her. During the meeting preparation, he is part of the honor guard assembled alongside Ingrid and the drivers. Later, in an exhausted return from another field assignment, he is among the large bodyguards accompanying Myfanwy and the small Pawn Alan Summerhill. After their helicopter lands roughly, the guards get out to check the landing area and then go to secure the Checquy staff while Myfanwy waits in the vehicle. The sequence makes their work a combination of escort, site security, and practical support for the team’s movement.

When Myfanwy meets Pawn Cyrus West, the large bodyguard with her inspects an extremely large gun taken from one of Ingrid’s cases. Myfanwy anxiously asks whether its safety catch is on; the guard replies uncertainly while checking the weapon. The passage does not explicitly identify this particular guard as Anthony, so it should not be taken as a definite action of his. It does, however, place Anthony’s recurring role in a broader pattern of armed protection and uncertain field conditions surrounding Myfanwy’s team.

Death and Myfanwy’s Response

Anthony is killed during the attack on the reception. After the survivors relocate, Lady Linda Farrier questions whether the remaining Retainers should be escorted out, since some had attacked her. Myfanwy argues forcefully that the Retainers who put themselves in danger to protect the group have demonstrated their loyalty. Her defense is personal as well as institutional: she has found Anthony dead, and she and Ingrid Woodhouse have wept together and held hands before the gathering changes rooms.

Anthony’s death is therefore not merely one casualty among the attack’s consequences. It shapes Myfanwy’s response to suspicion within the Checquy at a moment when betrayal has made trust precarious. She refuses to let the danger posed by treacherous Retainers erase the loyalty shown by those who defended the group. The contrast gives her insistence weight: security cannot be judged only by the presence of weapons or the possibility of betrayal, but also by the choices made to protect others.

Narrative Significance

The available episodes define Anthony through service, proximity, and the cost of protection rather than through an independent account of his background. He is present at the ordinary edges of Myfanwy’s work—carrying luggage, waiting in the cold, and adapting to an improvised journey—as well as during armed confrontations and emergency field operations. That range makes his eventual death a personal loss embedded in the practical machinery of the Checquy.

Myfanwy’s grief also links Anthony’s role to her developing judgment as a leader. In the aftermath of the reception attack, she resists treating every surviving Retainer as suspect and grounds her position in the actions of those who defended the group. Anthony’s service has ended, but the memory of it informs the distinction she makes between treachery and loyalty. The evidence thus presents him less as a speaking or independently developed figure than as a trusted member of Myfanwy’s team whose presence, work, and loss clarify what that team means to her.