Cast
- Gemma Jones as Louisa Trotter (née Leyton)
- Victoria Plucknett as Mary
- John Welsh as Merriman
- John Cater as Starr
- Richard Vernon as Major Smith-Barton
- Christopher Cazenove as Charles "Charlie" Tyrrell, later Lord Haslemere
- Mary Healey as Mrs. Cochrane, Louisa's head cook at the Bentinck
- Sammie Winmill as Ethel, a maid at the Bentinck
- Holly De Jong as Violet, another maid
- Donald Burton as Augustus Trotter
- June Brown as Mrs. Violet Leyton
- John Rapley as Mr. Ernest Leyton
- Lalla Ward as Lottie. Gemma Jones is only eight years and six months older than Ward. Philippa Shackleton played Lottie as a child in one episode.
- Bryan Coleman as Lord Henry Norton, Louisa's employer for part of the first series, beginning in the first episode
- Christine Pollon as Aunt Gwyneth, Mary's aunt and occasional seamstress at the Bentinck
- George Pravda as Monsieur Alex
- Roger Hammond as the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII
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