Edward and Mrs Simpson

Edward Fox

King Edward VIII

Cynthia Harris

Wallis Warfield Simspon

David Waller

Stanley Baldwin

Andrew Ray

Duke of York

Peggy Ashcroft

Queen Mary

Nigel Hawthorne

Walter Monkton

John Shrapnel

Major Alexander Hardinge

Charles Keating

Ernest Simpson

Peter Ellis

Osborne

Jessie Matthews

Aunt Bessie Merryman

Amanda Reiss

Duchess of York

Gary Waldhorn

Chips Channon

Patrick Troughton

Clement Atlee

Patricia Hodge

Lady Diana Cooper

Nuala Barrie

Queen Mary’s Lady in Waiting

Elsie Randolph

Lady Colefax

Wensley Pithey

Winston Churchill

Rosanne Wickes

Princess Mary

Gerald Sim

Theodore Goddard

Geoffrey Lumsden

Geoffrey Dawson

Marius Goring

King George V

Ed Devereaux

Lord Beaverbrook

Hugh Fraser

Anthony Eden

Simon Cadell

Major John Aird

Edward Jewesbury

Lord Dawson

Robert Flemyng

Sir Donald Somervell

Maurice Denham

Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury

T.R. Bowen

Duff Cooper (as Trevor Bowen)

Michael Stroud

Esmond Harmsworth

John Harvey

Sir John Reith

Roger Hammond

Sir Harold Nicolson

Terence Rigby

Stanley Bruce

Tony Church

Sir Samuel Hoare

Cherie Lunghi

Lady Thelma Furness

Richard Waring

Lord Darby

Bessie Love

Lady Cunard

Jeremy Child

Piers Leigh

Jay Neill

RSM Reeves

Clifford Earl

Footman

David King

Lord Kelmsley

John Abbott

Mouth Organist

Alec Bregonzi

Luigi

Trevor Ray

Walter Frampton

Kika Markham

Freda Dudley Ward

Caroline Embling

Angie

John Kidd

Sir Percy Watkins

Roy Pattison

CSM Owen

Derek Fuke

RQMS Neale

Petal Allen

Colonial Wife

Elin Jenkins

Maid

Walter Henry

Lady Furness’s Butler (uncredited)

Antony Brown

Hugh Lloyd Thomas (as Anthony Brown)

Peter Schofield

Head Cook

Patrick Brock

King’s Secretary

Alvar Liddell

Radio Announcer

Dominic Cox

Boy with Mouth Organ

Roger Hume

Humphrey Butler

Richard Kay

Godfrey Thomas

Hugh Martin

Official

Julia McCarthy

Mrs Quinn

Phil McCaul

Thomas Quinn

Elaine Wells

Mrs Dalby

Peter Clapham

Archibald Travers

Raymond Francis

Mr Justice Hawke

John Horsley

Norman Birkett K.C.

John Louis Mansi

Dante Busclia

Christopher Holmes

Stoker Aldridge (as Chris Holmes)

William Hoyland

Lord Perry Brownlow

Ron Gregory

Major Edward Metcalfe

Robert Harris

Speaker of the House of Commons

Rodney Lovick

George Lambert

Caroline Mary Simmons

Lady Alexandra Metcalfe