On screen
Cast
35 credited performers
Edward Fox
King Edward VIII
Cynthia Harris
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Artwork unavailable
David Waller
Stanley Baldwin
Peggy Ashcroft
Queen Mary
Nigel Hawthorne
Walter Monkton
John Shrapnel
Maj. Alexander Hardinge
Andrew Ray
Duke of York
Jessie Matthews
Aunt Bessie Merryman
Charles Keating
Ernest Simpson
Artwork unavailable
Peter Ellis
Osborne
Artwork unavailable
Amanda Reiss
Duchess of York
T.R. Bowen
Duff Cooper
Patricia Hodge
Lady Diana Cooper
Elsie Randolph
Lady Colefax
Gary Waldhorn
Chips Channon
Artwork unavailable
Nuala Barrie
Queen Mary's Lady in Waiting
Artwork unavailable
Rosanne Wickes
Princess Mary
Patrick Troughton
Clement Attlee
Wensley Pithey
Winston Churchill
Marius Goring
King George V
Maurice Denham
Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury
Edward Jewesbury
Lord Dawson
Simon Cadell
Maj. John Aird
Hugh Fraser
Anthony Eden
Robert Flemyng
Sir Donald Somervell
Gerald Sim
Theodore Goddard
Ed Devereaux
Lord Beaverbrook
Geoffrey Lumsden
Geoffrey Dawson
William Hoyland
Lord Perry Brownlow
Artwork unavailable
Michael Stroud
Esmond Harmsworth
Kika Markham
Freda Dudley Ward
Cherie Lunghi
Lady Thelma Furness
Jeremy Child
Piers Leigh
Artwork unavailable
Caroline Embling
Angie
Bessie Love
Lady Cunard