QUALIFICATIONS:

Studied at Oxford and Sandhurst

MILITARY:

Former director of British Military Intelligence (MI6)

Knighted during his Directorship for service to the Nation.

Member of U.N. Security Development Committee.

NOTATIONS:

Highly intelligent.  Specialist in Ancient Military History.  Champion Swordsman.

KNOWN FAMILY:

Wife - Diana Grey, Chairman of Global Heritage Foundation.

Daughter - Victoria Grey, Student in Archeology

Colonel White is the Supreme Spectrum Commander. Formerly of the Royal Marines and British Intelligence, Colonel White was also Spectrum's chief architect. From an English family with a military tradition much the same as the Svensons’, his military career was marked by several awards for bravery, before he was recruited to MI6. After ten years in the secret service, culminating in the role as director, Sir Charles (as he was by then) was preparing for another career move into the diplomatic service when the United Nations asked him to work on its Security Development Committee, the creators of Spectrum.

Colonel White is a dedicated man who will not allow personal feelings to influence his strategic judgment. Oxford and Sandhurst educated and fiercely intelligent, he rarely leaves the Spectrum nerve centre of Central Control, but when he does relax (given that he can't indulge his love of fishing from the

heights of Skybase) Colonel White spends his time playing chess (often with Scarlet, who is his only equal in the game there) or researching ancient military history. He also likes to keep fit by fencing in the gym, where his preferred partner is Destiny. 

Although dedicated to defending Earth from the Mysterons, White also feels the loneliness of command on Skybase and hates being separated for months from his wife and family and their estate in Gloucestershire.