Elizabeth R

Glenda Jackson

Queen Elizabeth I

Ronald Hines

William Cecil

Angela Thorne

Lettice Knollys

Robert Hardy

Robert Dudley

John Shrapnel

Earl of Sussex

Stephen Murray

Walsingham

Vivian Pickles

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

Rachel Kempson

Kat Ashley

Robin Ellis

Robert Devereaux

Peter Jeffrey

King Philip II of Spain

Gordon Gostelow

Peter Howell

Lord Howard

Ian Calvin

Jester (uncredited)

Clifford Rose

Egerton

Brian Wilde

Richard Topcliffe

Margaretta Scott

Catherine de Medici

Rosalie Crutchley

Catherine Parr

David Parfitt

Philip's Son

James Laurenson

Simier

Julian Holloway

de Noailles

Bernard Holley

Gilbert Gifford

Ian Barritt

Fowler

Derek Martin

Horseman to Cecil

Leonard Sachs

Count de Feria

Hamilton Dyce

Sir Amyas Paulet

Michael Williams

Duke of Alencon

John Woodvine

Sir Francis Drake

Stanley Lebor

Sir Robert Tyrwhit

Anthony Ainley

Henry Sidney

Bernard Hepton

Archbishop Cranmer

Patrick O'Connell

O'Neill

Jill Balcon

Lady Cobham

Michael Culver

John Tregannon

John Nettleton

Sir Francis Bacon

Bernard Horsfall

Sir Christopher Hatton

Peter Egan

Earl of Southampton

Basil Dignam

Archbishop Gardiner

Esmond Knight

Bishop de Quadra

Stacey Tendeter

Amye Dudley

Blake Butler

Sir Thomas Parry