Edward The Seventh - Series Cast

Series Cast

Royal Family

• Annette Crosbie as Queen Victoria (episodes 1–10)
• Timothy West as Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (episodes 5–13)
• Helen Ryan as Princess Alexandra, later Queen Alexandra (episodes 6–13)
• Robert Hardy as Prince Albert (episodes 1–4)
• Felicity Kendal as Princess Vicky, later Empress Frederick of Germany (episodes 2–5, 8, 10 and 11)
• Charles Sturridge as Young Bertie, Prince of Wales (episodes 2–4)
• Deborah Grant as Young Alexandra (episodes 4–5)
• Christopher Neame as Kaiser Wilhelm II (episodes 8 and 10–13)
• Jane Lapotaire as Empress Marie of Russia (episodes 6–8 and 10–13)
• Alison Leggatt as the Duchess of Kent (episodes 1–3)
• Charles Dance as Prince Eddy (episodes 8–9)
• Michael Osborne as Prince George, Duke of York, later King George V (episodes 8–13)
• Shirley Steedman as Princess Alice (episodes 3–6)
• Judy Loe as Princess May of Teck, later Queen Mary (episodes 9-13)
• Cheryl Campbell as Princess Beatrice (episode 10)
• Vanessa Miles as Princess Louise (episode 10)
• Madeleine Cannon as Princess Toria (episode 10)
• Rosalyn Elvin as Princess Maud, Queen Maude of Norway (episode 10)
• Michael Billington as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (episodes 10, 12 and 13)
• Meriel Brooke as Tsarina Alexandra (episodes 10 and 13)

Other royalty

• Paul Greenhalgh as King George I of Greece (episodes 5, 8, 10)
• Mel Churcher as Princess Hélène of Orléans (episode 9)

Prime ministers and politicians

• Joseph O'Conor as Lord Melbourne (episode 1)
• Michael Barrington as Sir Robert Peel (episode 1)
• John Welsh as the Duke of Wellington (episode 1)
• André Morell as Lord Palmerston (episodes 2–4)
• Peter Collingwood as Lord John Russell (episode 4-5)
• Michael Hordern as William Ewart Gladstone (episodes 5–6 and 8–10)
• John Gielgud as Benjamin Disraeli (episodes 6–7)
• Derek Fowlds as Lord Randolph Churchill (episode 7)
• Richard Vernon as Lord Salisbury (episodes 9–11)
• Edward Hardwicke as Lord Rosebery (episode 9)
• Lyndon Brook as A. J. Balfour (episode 10-12)
• Geoffrey Bayldon as Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (episode 12-13)
• Basil Dignam as H. H. Asquith (episode 13)
• Geoffrey Beevers as David Lloyd George (episode 13)
• Christopher Strauli as Winston Churchill (episode 13)

British Army and Royal Navy

• Harry Andrews as Colonel Bruce (episodes 2–4)
• Clive Morton as Lieut. Gen. Owen Williams (episode 9)
• James Berwick as Admiral Sir John Fisher (episodes 12-13)

Diplomats

• Edward de Souza as Luis de Soveral, Portuguese ambassador (episodes 11-13)

Others

• Patience Collier as Baroness Lehzen (episode 1)
• Noel Willman as Baron Stockmar (episodes 1-2)
• Guy Slater as Lord Charles Carrington (episodes 3-4 and 6-12)
• Gareth Thomas as Lord Charles Beresford (episodes 7 and 9)
• Francesca Annis as Lillie Langtry (episodes 7–8)
• Carolyn Seymour as Lady Brooke (episodes 9–10)
• Martin Skinner as Sipido (episode 10)
• Moira Redmond as Alice Keppel (episodes 10–13)