Queen Elizabeth I

Glenda Jackson

William Cecil (Lord Burghley)

Ronald Hines

Robert Dudley (Earl of Leicester)

Robert Hardy

Walsingham

Stephen Murray

Earl of Sussex

John Shrapnel

Lettice Knollys, Lady Leicester

Angela Thorne

Robert Devereaux (Earl of Essex)

Robin Ellis

King Philip II of Spain

Peter Jeffrey

Kat Ashley

Rachel Kempson

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

Vivian Pickles

Lord Howard

Peter Howell