Iris Wildthyme is a fictional character created by writer Paul Magrs, who has appeared in short stories, novels and audio dramas from numerous publishers.
[1][2] She is best known from spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, where she is sometimes depicted as a renegade Time Lord.
Iris Wildthyme first appears in one of Magrs's non-genre novels, Marked for Life,[4] as a lesbian novelist who has lived for far longer than a normal lifespan.
The Doctor already knows Iris as an "old friend", and she is seen to be travelling in a 20th-century London AEC Routemaster double-decker bus (the route 22 to Putney Common), which is, in reality, her TARDIS.
[10] Iris was featured at length in The Scarlet Empress[11] and The Blue Angel,[12] and went on to appear in several more short stories and novels in the BBC Books range, most recently Mad Dogs and Englishmen in 2002.
[25] Iris claims to have been raised by a House of Aunts (as opposed to Cousins), in the mountains of southern Gallifrey,[26] and also that she has erased all of her records from the Matrix, explaining why the Time Lords know nothing about her.
She is known to have survived the destruction of Gallifrey and the apparent retroactive wiping of the Time Lords from history that took place at the end of the novel The Ancestor Cell.
One of these, Bianca (voiced by Maria McErlane), appears in the Big Finish Productions audio play The Wormery and is similar to the Doctor's villainous Valeyard incarnation.