cast
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Edward Fox
King Edward VIII
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Cynthia Harris
Wallis Warfield Simspon
- David Waller Stanley Baldwin
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Andrew Ray
Duke of York
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Peggy Ashcroft
Queen Mary
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Nigel Hawthorne
Walter Monkton
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John Shrapnel
Major Alexander Hardinge
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Charles Keating
Ernest Simpson
- Peter Ellis Osborne
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Jessie Matthews
Aunt Bessie Merryman
- Amanda Reiss Duchess of York
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Gary Waldhorn
Chips Channon
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Patrick Troughton
Clement Atlee
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Patricia Hodge
Lady Diana Cooper
- Nuala Barrie Queen Mary’s Lady in Waiting
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Elsie Randolph
Lady Colefax
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Wensley Pithey
Winston Churchill
- Rosanne Wickes Princess Mary
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Gerald Sim
Theodore Goddard
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Geoffrey Lumsden
Geoffrey Dawson
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Marius Goring
King George V
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Ed Devereaux
Lord Beaverbrook
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Hugh Fraser
Anthony Eden
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Simon Cadell
Major John Aird
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Edward Jewesbury
Lord Dawson
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Robert Flemyng
Sir Donald Somervell
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Maurice Denham
Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury
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T.R. Bowen
Duff Cooper (as Trevor Bowen)
- Michael Stroud Esmond Harmsworth
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John Harvey
Sir John Reith
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Roger Hammond
Sir Harold Nicolson
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Terence Rigby
Stanley Bruce
- Tony Church Sir Samuel Hoare
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Cherie Lunghi
Lady Thelma Furness
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Richard Waring
Lord Darby
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Bessie Love
Lady Cunard
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Jeremy Child
Piers Leigh
- Jay Neill RSM Reeves
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Clifford Earl
Footman
- David King Lord Kelmsley
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John Abbott
Mouth Organist
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Alec Bregonzi
Luigi
- Trevor Ray Walter Frampton
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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
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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
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Raymond Francis
Mr Justice Hawke
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John Horsley
Norman Birkett K.C.
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John Louis Mansi
Dante Busclia
- Christopher Holmes Stoker Aldridge (as Chris Holmes)
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William Hoyland
Lord Perry Brownlow
- Ron Gregory Major Edward Metcalfe
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Robert Harris
Speaker of the House of Commons
- Rodney Lovick George Lambert
- Caroline Mary Simmons Lady Alexandra Metcalfe