On screen
Cast
72 credited performers
Edward Fox
King Edward VIII
Cynthia Harris
Wallis Warfield Simspon
David Waller
Stanley Baldwin
Andrew Ray
Duke of York
Peggy Ashcroft
Queen Mary
Nigel Hawthorne
Walter Monkton
John Shrapnel
Major Alexander Hardinge
Charles Keating
Ernest Simpson
Peter Ellis
Osborne
Jessie Matthews
Aunt Bessie Merryman
Amanda Reiss
Duchess of York
Gary Waldhorn
Chips Channon
Patrick Troughton
Clement Atlee
Patricia Hodge
Lady Diana Cooper
Nuala Barrie
Queen Mary’s Lady in Waiting
Elsie Randolph
Lady Colefax
Wensley Pithey
Winston Churchill
Rosanne Wickes
Princess Mary
Gerald Sim
Theodore Goddard
Geoffrey Lumsden
Geoffrey Dawson
Marius Goring
King George V
Ed Devereaux
Lord Beaverbrook
Hugh Fraser
Anthony Eden
Simon Cadell
Major John Aird
Edward Jewesbury
Lord Dawson
Robert Flemyng
Sir Donald Somervell
Maurice Denham
Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury
T.R. Bowen
Duff Cooper (as Trevor Bowen)
Michael Stroud
Esmond Harmsworth
John Harvey
Sir John Reith
Roger Hammond
Sir Harold Nicolson
Terence Rigby
Stanley Bruce
Tony Church
Sir Samuel Hoare
Cherie Lunghi
Lady Thelma Furness
Richard Waring
Lord Darby
Bessie Love
Lady Cunard
Jeremy Child
Piers Leigh
Jay Neill
RSM Reeves
Clifford Earl
Footman
David King
Lord Kelmsley
John Abbott
Mouth Organist
Alec Bregonzi
Luigi
Trevor Ray
Walter Frampton
Kika Markham
Freda Dudley Ward
Caroline Embling
Angie
John Kidd
Sir Percy Watkins
Roy Pattison
CSM Owen
Derek Fuke
RQMS Neale
Petal Allen
Colonial Wife
Elin Jenkins
Maid
Walter Henry
Lady Furness’s Butler (uncredited)
Antony Brown
Hugh Lloyd Thomas (as Anthony Brown)
Peter Schofield
Head Cook
Patrick Brock
King’s Secretary
Alvar Liddell
Radio Announcer
Dominic Cox
Boy with Mouth Organ
Roger Hume
Humphrey Butler
Richard Kay
Godfrey Thomas
Hugh Martin
Official
Julia McCarthy
Mrs Quinn
Phil McCaul
Thomas Quinn
Elaine Wells
Mrs Dalby
Peter Clapham
Archibald Travers
Raymond Francis
Mr Justice Hawke
John Horsley
Norman Birkett K.C.
John Louis Mansi
Dante Busclia
Christopher Holmes
Stoker Aldridge (as Chris Holmes)
William Hoyland
Lord Perry Brownlow
Ron Gregory
Major Edward Metcalfe
Robert Harris
Speaker of the House of Commons
Rodney Lovick
George Lambert
Caroline Mary Simmons
Lady Alexandra Metcalfe