cast
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Glenda Jackson
Queen Elizabeth I
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Ronald Hines
William Cecil
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Angela Thorne
Lettice Knollys
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Robert Hardy
Robert Dudley
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John Shrapnel
Earl of Sussex
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Stephen Murray
Walsingham
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Vivian Pickles
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
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Rachel Kempson
Kat Ashley
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Robin Ellis
Robert Devereaux
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Peter Jeffrey
King Philip II of Spain
- Gordon Gostelow Duke of Medina Sidonia
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Peter Howell
Lord Howard
- Ian Calvin Jester (uncredited)
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Clifford Rose
Egerton
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Brian Wilde
Richard Topcliffe
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Margaretta Scott
Catherine de Medici
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Rosalie Crutchley
Catherine Parr
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David Parfitt
Philip's Son
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James Laurenson
Simier
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Julian Holloway
de Noailles
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Bernard Holley
Gilbert Gifford
- Ian Barritt Fowler
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Derek Martin
Horseman to Cecil
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Leonard Sachs
Count de Feria
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Hamilton Dyce
Sir Amyas Paulet
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Michael Williams
Duke of Alencon
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John Woodvine
Sir Francis Drake
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Stanley Lebor
Sir Robert Tyrwhit
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Anthony Ainley
Henry Sidney
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Bernard Hepton
Archbishop Cranmer
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Patrick O'Connell
O'Neill
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Jill Balcon
Lady Cobham
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Michael Culver
John Tregannon
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John Nettleton
Sir Francis Bacon
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Bernard Horsfall
Sir Christopher Hatton
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Peter Egan
Earl of Southampton
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Basil Dignam
Archbishop Gardiner
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Esmond Knight
Bishop de Quadra
- Stacey Tendeter Amye Dudley
- Blake Butler Sir Thomas Parry
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John Ronane
Thomas Seymour
- Daphne Slater Mary I
- Nicolette Bernard Lady Tyrwhit
- Kevin Brennan Bridges
- Brendan Barry Renard
- Robert Garrett Sir Thomas Wyatt
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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
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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
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David Collings
Sir Anthony Babington
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David Nettheim
Thomas Phelippes
- John Graham William Davison
- David Garfield John Ballard
- Malcolm Hayes Sir Edward Kelley
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Raf De La Torre
Dr. John Dee
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James Culliford
John Savage
- John Ruddock John Whitgift
- Christopher Hancock Juan de Idiaquez
- Geoffrey Wincott Santa Cruz
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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
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Malcolm McFee
Young Soldier
- Hugh Dickson Sir Robert Cecil
- Nicholas Selby Sir Walter Raleigh
- Hayden Jones Sir Christopher Blount
- Sonia Fraser Elizabeth Vernon
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Shirley Dixon
Lady Rich
- Judith South Lady Essex
- Kevin Flood King Richard
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David Hargreaves
Bolingbroke
- Michael Beint Gaoler
- Peter Forest Harper
- Winefride Madigan Irish Peasant
