Top Billed Cast

1. 

   Edward Fox

   King Edward VIII

2. 

   Cynthia Harris

   Wallis Warfield Simpson

3. 

   David Waller

   Stanley Baldwin

4. 

   Peggy Ashcroft

   Queen Mary

5. 

   Nigel Hawthorne

   Walter Monkton

6. 

   John Shrapnel

   Maj. Alexander Hardinge

7. 

   Andrew Ray

   Duke of York

8. 

   Jessie Matthews

   Aunt Bessie Merryman

9. 

   Charles Keating

   Ernest Simpson

10. 

    Peter Ellis

    Osborne

11. 

    Amanda Reiss

    Duchess of York

12. 

    T.R. Bowen

    Duff Cooper

13. 

    Patricia Hodge

    Lady Diana Cooper

14. 

    Elsie Randolph

    Lady Colefax

15. 

    Gary Waldhorn

    Chips Channon

16. 

    Nuala Barrie

    Queen Mary's Lady in Waiting

17. 

    Rosanne Wickes

    Princess Mary

18. 

    Patrick Troughton

    Clement Attlee

19. 

    Wensley Pithey

    Winston Churchill

20. 

    Marius Goring

    King George V

21. 

    Maurice Denham

    Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury

22. 

    Edward Jewesbury

    Lord Dawson

23. 

    Simon Cadell

    Maj. John Aird

24. 

    Hugh Fraser

    Anthony Eden

25. 

    Robert Flemyng

    Sir Donald Somervell

26. 

    Gerald Sim

    Theodore Goddard

27. 

    Ed Devereaux

    Lord Beaverbrook

28. 

    Geoffrey Lumsden

    Geoffrey Dawson

29. 

    William Hoyland

    Lord Perry Brownlow

30. 

    Michael Stroud

    Esmond Harmsworth

31. 

    Kika Markham

    Freda Dudley Ward

32. 

    Cherie Lunghi

    Lady Thelma Furness

33. 

    Jeremy Child

    Piers Leigh

34. 

    Caroline Embling

    Angie

35. 

    Bessie Love

    Lady Cunard