Edward Fox

as King Edward VIII

Cynthia Harris

as Wallis Warfield Simpson

David Waller

as Stanley Baldwin

Peggy Ashcroft

as Queen Mary

Nigel Hawthorne

as Walter Monkton

John Shrapnel

as Maj. Alexander Hardinge

Andrew Ray

as Duke of York

Jessie Matthews

as Aunt Bessie Merryman

Charles Keating

as Ernest Simpson

Peter Ellis

as Osborne

Amanda Reiss

as Duchess of York

T.R. Bowen

as Duff Cooper

Patricia Hodge

as Lady Diana Cooper

Elsie Randolph

as Lady Colefax

Gary Waldhorn

as Chips Channon

Nuala Barrie

as Queen Mary's Lady in Waiting

Rosanne Wickes

as Princess Mary

Patrick Troughton

as Clement Attlee

Wensley Pithey

as Winston Churchill

Marius Goring

as King George V

Maurice Denham

as Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury

Edward Jewesbury

as Lord Dawson

Simon Cadell

as Maj. John Aird

Hugh Fraser

as Anthony Eden

Robert Flemyng

as Sir Donald Somervell

Gerald Sim

as Theodore Goddard

Ed Devereaux

as Lord Beaverbrook

Geoffrey Lumsden

as Geoffrey Dawson

William Hoyland

as Lord Perry Brownlow

Michael Stroud

as Esmond Harmsworth

Kika Markham

as Freda Dudley Ward

Cherie Lunghi

as Lady Thelma Furness

Jeremy Child

as Piers Leigh

Caroline Embling

as Angie

Bessie Love

as Lady Cunard