Henry VIII of England

Keith Michell

Catherine Howard

Angela Pleasence

Catherine Parr

Rosalie Crutchley

Catherine of Aragon

Annette Crosbie

Anne of Cleves

Elvi Hale

Jane Seymour

Anne Stallybrass

Anne Boleyn

Dorothy Tutin

Thomas Seymour

John Ronane

Narrator

Anthony Quayle

Lady Rochford

Sheila Burrell

Will Somers

Howard Goorney

Duke of Norfolk

Patrick Troughton

Anne Carey

Julia Cornelius

Edward Seymour (Lord Hertford)

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer

Bernard Hepton

Dorothy Seymour

Gillian Bailey

Dowager Duchess of Norfolk

Catherine Lacey

Thomas Cromwell

Wolfe Morris

Mark Smeaton

Michael Osborne

Bishop Gardiner

Basil Dignam

Lady Margaret Seymour

Dorothy Black

Eustache Chapuys

Edward Atienza

Princess Mary

Alison Frazer

Sir Thomas Wriothesley

Patrick Godfrey

Lord Hertford Edward Seymour / Edward Seymour

Daniel Moynihan

Sir Christopher Hales

Peter Cellier

Francis Dereham

Simon Prebble

Lotte

Mollie Sugden

Anne Stanhope

Jo Kendall

Thomas Culpepper

Ralph Bates

Lady Boleyn

Hilary Mason

Henry VII

John Woodnutt

Robert Barnes

Robert James

Don Gutierre Gómez de Fuensalida

Peter Stephens

Anne Askew

Elizabeth Bell

Cardinal Campeggio

Ronald Adam

Cardinal Wolsey

John Baskcomb

Philip of Hesse

Peter Reeves

Nobleman

Peter Bennett

Prince Arthur

Martin Ratcliffe

Dr. de Puebla

Ken Wynne

Dona Elvira Manuel

Sally Travers

Earl of Surrey

Donald Bisset

Maria de Salinas

Margaret Ford

Francesca de Carceres

Joyce Mandre

Bishop Fox

Robert Hartley

Tutor

Will Leighton

Lord Willoughby

Valentine Palmer

Inez de Venegas

Ina De La Haye

Princess Mary

Verina Greenlaw

Duke of Suffolk

Raymond Adamson

Usher

Richard Burnett

Archbishop Warham

Charles Workman

Bishop Fisher

Geoffrey Lewis

Sir Henry Norreys

Christopher Hancock

The Earl of Surrey

Christopher Beeching

Sir William Kingston

Robert Cawdron

Lady Kingston

Patricia Heneghan

Armourer

Arnold Peters

Sir John Seymour

Howard Lang

Sir Frances Bryan

William Abney

Sir Nicholas Carew

Louis Haslar

Lady Exeter

Marion Mathie

Holbein

James Mellor

Amalie

Carol MacReady

Duke Wilhelm of Cleves

William Maxwell

Christopher Mont

David Butler

Henry's Gentleman

Norman Atkyns

Servant

Michael Cullen

Princess Elizabeth

Jody Schaller

Lady Frances

Stephanie Lacey

Lady Margaret

Melanie Ackland

Surgeon

John Richmond

Lady-in-Waiting

Sue Bishop

Ambassador

Alberto Colzi

Captain Stanton

Bill Riley

Lady Lane

Karen Ford

Anthony Knevet

Jim Kennedy

George

Jonathan Newth