Cast
- Glenda Jackson - Elizabeth
- Robert Hardy - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
- Ronald Hines - Sir William Cecil
- Michael Williams - François, Duke of Anjou
- Robin Ellis - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
- Stephen Murray - Sir Francis Walsingham
- John Shrapnel - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
- Jason Kemp - Edward VI of England
- Daphne Slater - Queen Mary
- Vivian Pickles - Mary, Queen of Scots
- Hamilton Dyce - Amyas Paulet
- Rachel Kempson - Kat Ashley
- Peter Jeffrey - King Philip of Spain
- David Collings - Anthony Babington
- Bernard Holley - Gilbert Gifford
- John Woodvine - Sir Francis Drake
- John Nettleton - Sir Francis Bacon
- Angela Thorne - Lettice Knollys
- James Laurenson - Jean de Simier
- Hugh Dickson - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
- Nicholas Selby - Sir Walter Raleigh
- Margaretta Scott - Catherine de' Medici
- John Ronane - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley
- Bernard Hepton - Archbishop Cranmer
- Basil Dignam - Bishop Gardiner
- Rosalie Crutchley - Catherine Parr
- Brian Wilde - Richard Topcliffe
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