Caroline Lee

Caroline Elton, née Lee (1985) is Bing Lee's older sister and a friend of William Darcy, who she has a crush on. Though she initially presents herself as a friend to Jane Bennet and Lizzie Bennet, she backstabs them.

Biography
Caroline was born in the wealthy Lee family, with one younger brother, Bing Lee (1986). In 2012, she, Darcy and Bing moved to Netherfield House where they got to know the Bennet family. While their house was being remodelled, Jane Bennet and Lizzie Bennet stayed at Netherfield with Darcy, Bing and Caroline. Caroline presented herself as a friend to Lizzie, keeping her videos secret from Bing. Caroline also went on the videos herself to paint a more flattering picture of herself, as Charlotte Lu had recently portrayed her in the videos as a selfish, snobbish socialite.

Caroline soon grew jealous of the growing affection of William Darcy for Lizzie and saw the Bennets as opportunists. At her brother's birthday party she forced a drunk friend of hers on Jane Bennet, and told her brother she had caught Jane cheating.

Soon after, they moved back to Los Angeles without telling the Bennet family. Caroline kept herself and her brother busy to make sure Jane couldn't meet Bing to tell her what had happened. She also made plans to see Jane on various occasions and ditched her each time.

She visited Lizzie Bennet at Collins & Collins, where Charlotte Lu interrogated her and got her admitting on tape that she knew how deep Jane's feelings for Bing were and separated them. They met again while having dinner with Catherine de Bourgh.

She came back one last time to blame and accuse Lizzie Bennet of ruining her brother's life, because he had quit med school and run off to New York with Jane Bennet. Additionally, she blamed Lizzie for Darcy's interest in her and lied to her that his business was failing because of her, while in actuality Pemberly Digital was thriving.

She met James Elton in early 2014 and they got engaged three months later. They hired Emma Woodhouse as the planner of their engagement party. Caroline really wanted to prove that she was better than Emma, who had first caught her fiancé's eye and to humiliate Harriet Smith.

In 2018, Caroline and her husband James, now "the Eltons", recommended Emma's company to Ricky Collins.

Appearance
Caroline is beautiful. Her shining dark hair is her main feature, being mentioned by Charlotte, Lizzie, Harriet and Emma Woodhouse. She also gave the Empress of Japan hairstyle advice and refuses to wear hats on "good hair days".

In costume theatre, Caroline is portrayed (usually by Charlotte) with a stylish pair of sunglasses.

Personality
Caroline is intelligent, charming, stylish, sophisticated and sociable. She can easily befriend people and knows how to present herself. She's an ambitious individual and she loves her brother very much, stating she would do anything for his happiness. However, she doesn't respect him and thinks him incapable of making his own choices, justifying her own manipulative behaviour.

However, Caroline is also snobbish, superficial, judgemental and cruel. She has no problem orchestrating other people's unhappiness, as seen on many occassions. She forces a restaurant to fire a cook just for not cooking vegan, she makes Harriet Smith do needless chores just to humiliate her. She has no problem lying to people. She lies to Lizzie at Collins & Collins that she hasn't watched her videos and she lies to Harriet Smith that she can come to the engagement party while she's actually not allowed. Most notably, she lies to her brother Bing that his girlfriend Jane cheated on him while she forced a friend of hers to kiss Jane.

She likes to compare herself to Emma Woodhouse, and thinks they are very much alike. Both women are stylish, manipulative, intelligent and ambitious. Emma, however, manipulates for the well-being of others, while Caroline manipulates for her own happiness and her brother's, regardless who she hurts. Furthermore, Emma is a good friend, has a moral compass and can on occasion admit her mistakes. Caroline has no problem leaving friends behind to make new ones, doesn't care if she hurts someone she considers beneath her and will always blame someone else.

Trivia

 * She and Ricky Collins are the only characters to appear in both The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Emma Approved.
 * According to James, she dislikes driving.
 * It's mentioned by several characters that she's well-educated and has a college degree. However, out of all characters she's the only one whose job and level of study are unknown.
 * She is fluent in Italian, so she may have studied the Italian language at college.
 * She gave the Empress of Japan hairstyle advice, according to Catherine de Bourgh.
 * While portaying characters from the same Asian-American family, Caroline's actress is part-Filipino while Bing's actor is part-Japanese.
 * Jessica Jade Andres, Caroline's actress, also played Krishanti in Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party with many other Lizzie Bennet diaries cast members: Ashley Clements (Lizzie Bennet/Charlotte Brontë), Mary Kate Wiles (Lydia Bennet/Annabel Lee), Laura Spencer (Jane Bennet/Jane Austen).