Edward and Mrs Simpson

John Shrapnel

Major Alexander Hardinge

Peggy Ashcroft

Queen Mary

William Hoyland

Lord Perry Brownlow

Elsie Randolph

Lady Colefax

Gerald Sim

Theodore Goddard

Charles Keating

Ernest Simpson

Jeremy Child

Piers Leigh

Roger Hume

Humphrey Butler

Edward Fox

King Edward VIII

John Horsley

Norman Birkett K.C.

Bessie Love

Lady Cunard

Clifford Earl

Footman

Ron Gregory

Major Edward Metcalfe

Terence Rigby

Stanley Bruce

Nigel Hawthorne

Walter Monkton

Patrick Troughton

Clement Atlee

Walter Henry

Lady Furness’s Butler (uncredited)

Peter Ellis

Osborne

Tony Church

Sir Samuel Hoare

Roger Hammond

Sir Harold Nicolson

Marius Goring

King George V

Patricia Hodge

Lady Diana Cooper

John Harvey

Sir John Reith

Cherie Lunghi

Lady Thelma Furness

David King

Lord Kelmsley

Robert Flemyng

Sir Donald Somervell

John Abbott

Mouth Organist

Edward Jewesbury

Lord Dawson

Geoffrey Lumsden

Geoffrey Dawson

Hugh Fraser

Anthony Eden

Maurice Denham

Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury

John Kidd

Sir Percy Watkins

Alec Bregonzi

Luigi

Peter Clapham

Archibald Travers

T.R. Bowen

Duff Cooper (as Trevor Bowen)

Kika Markham

Freda Dudley Ward

Trevor Ray

Walter Frampton

Cynthia Harris

Wallis Warfield Simspon

John Louis Mansi

Dante Busclia

Caroline Embling

Angie

Julia McCarthy

Mrs Quinn

Simon Cadell

Major John Aird

Ed Devereaux

Lord Beaverbrook

Gary Waldhorn

Chips Channon

Wensley Pithey

Winston Churchill

Alvar Liddell

Radio Announcer

Robert Harris

Speaker of the House of Commons

Raymond Francis

Mr Justice Hawke

Andrew Ray

Duke of York

Antony Brown

Hugh Lloyd Thomas (as Anthony Brown)

Richard Waring

Lord Darby

Nuala Barrie

Queen Mary’s Lady in Waiting

Elaine Wells

Mrs Dalby

Roy Pattison

CSM Owen

Jessie Matthews

Aunt Bessie Merryman

Patrick Brock

King’s Secretary

Hugh Martin

Official

Derek Fuke

RQMS Neale

David Waller

Stanley Baldwin

Peter Schofield

Head Cook

Jay Neill

RSM Reeves

Amanda Reiss

Duchess of York

Christopher Holmes

Stoker Aldridge (as Chris Holmes)

Richard Kay

Godfrey Thomas

Rosanne Wickes

Princess Mary

Caroline Mary Simmons

Lady Alexandra Metcalfe

Michael Stroud

Esmond Harmsworth

Petal Allen

Colonial Wife

Elin Jenkins

Maid

Dominic Cox

Boy with Mouth Organ

Phil McCaul

Thomas Quinn

Rodney Lovick

George Lambert

Waris Hussein

Directing | Director

Andrew Brown

Production | Producer

Brenda Ennis

Production | Associate Producer

David Graham

Production | Casting

Joyce Gallie

Production | Casting

Frances Donaldson

Writing | Writer

Simon Raven

Writing | Writer

Allan Cameron

Art | Production Design

Martyn Hebert

Art | Production Design

Angela Seyfang

Costume & Make-Up | Makeup & Hair

Diane Thurley

Costume & Make-Up | Costume Designer

Jennie Tate

Costume & Make-Up | Costume Design

Sally Thorpe

Costume & Make-Up | Makeup & Hair

Beryl Wilkins

Editing | Editor

Ron Grainer

Sound | Music