On screen
Cast
90 credited performers
Glenda Jackson
Queen Elizabeth I
Ronald Hines
William Cecil
Angela Thorne
Lettice Knollys
Robert Hardy
Robert Dudley
John Shrapnel
Earl of Sussex
Stephen Murray
Walsingham
Vivian Pickles
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Rachel Kempson
Kat Ashley
Robin Ellis
Robert Devereaux
Peter Jeffrey
King Philip II of Spain
Gordon Gostelow
Character not listed
Peter Howell
Lord Howard
Ian Calvin
Jester (uncredited)
Clifford Rose
Egerton
Brian Wilde
Richard Topcliffe
Margaretta Scott
Catherine de Medici
Rosalie Crutchley
Catherine Parr
David Parfitt
Philip's Son
James Laurenson
Simier
Julian Holloway
de Noailles
Bernard Holley
Gilbert Gifford
Ian Barritt
Fowler
Derek Martin
Horseman to Cecil
Leonard Sachs
Count de Feria
Hamilton Dyce
Sir Amyas Paulet
Michael Williams
Duke of Alencon
John Woodvine
Sir Francis Drake
Stanley Lebor
Sir Robert Tyrwhit
Anthony Ainley
Henry Sidney
Bernard Hepton
Archbishop Cranmer
Patrick O'Connell
O'Neill
Jill Balcon
Lady Cobham
Michael Culver
John Tregannon
John Nettleton
Sir Francis Bacon
Bernard Horsfall
Sir Christopher Hatton
Peter Egan
Earl of Southampton
Basil Dignam
Archbishop Gardiner
Esmond Knight
Bishop de Quadra
Stacey Tendeter
Amye Dudley
Blake Butler
Sir Thomas Parry
John Ronane
Thomas Seymour
Daphne Slater
Mary I
Nicolette Bernard
Lady Tyrwhit
Kevin Brennan
Bridges
Brendan Barry
Renard
Robert Garrett
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Alan Foss
Sir Henry Bedingford
Philip Brack
John Dudley, Earl of Northumberland
Jason Kemp
Edward VI
Richard Parry
Guard
Sarah Frampton
Lady Jane Grey
Robert Barry
Guildford Dudley
John Cairney
Sir James Melville
Denis Carey
Doctor Burcot
Caroline Harris
Mary Sidney
David Strong
Duke of Norfolk
Clare Austin
Mrs. Pinto
John Hughes
Fenelon
Mary Patricia Finn
Dwarf 'Elizabeth'
Albert Horton
Dwarf 'Leicester'
Leslie Lawton
Jacques
James Urquhart
Court Official
Kenton Moore
Preacher
David Collings
Sir Anthony Babington
David Nettheim
Thomas Phelippes
John Graham
William Davison
David Garfield
John Ballard
Malcolm Hayes
Sir Edward Kelley
Raf De La Torre
Dr. John Dee
James Culliford
John Savage
John Ruddock
John Whitgift
Christopher Hancock
Juan de Idiaquez
Geoffrey Wincott
Santa Cruz
Paul Hardwick
Father Robert Parsons
Ian Ricketts
Luis Cabrera de Cordoba
Robert Sansom
Speaker of the Commons
Bill Horsley
Dutch Envoy
Derek Hardwick
Old Soldier
Malcolm McFee
Young Soldier
Hugh Dickson
Sir Robert Cecil
Nicholas Selby
Sir Walter Raleigh
Hayden Jones
Sir Christopher Blount
Sonia Fraser
Elizabeth Vernon
Shirley Dixon
Lady Rich
Judith South
Lady Essex
Kevin Flood
King Richard
David Hargreaves
Bolingbroke
Michael Beint
Gaoler
Peter Forest
Harper
Winefride Madigan
Irish Peasant