Queen Elizabeth I

William Cecil

Lettice Knollys

Robert Dudley

Earl of Sussex

Walsingham

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

Kat Ashley

Robert Devereaux

King Philip II of Spain

Lord Howard

Jester (uncredited)

Egerton

Richard Topcliffe

Catherine de Medici

Catherine Parr

Philip's Son

Simier

de Noailles

Gilbert Gifford

Fowler

Horseman to Cecil

Count de Feria

Sir Amyas Paulet

Duke of Alencon

Sir Francis Drake

Sir Robert Tyrwhit

Henry Sidney

Archbishop Cranmer

O'Neill

Lady Cobham

John Tregannon

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Christopher Hatton

Earl of Southampton

Archbishop Gardiner

Bishop de Quadra

Amye Dudley

Sir Thomas Parry

Thomas Seymour

Mary I

Lady Tyrwhit

Bridges

Renard

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Sir Henry Bedingford

John Dudley, Earl of Northumberland

Edward VI

Guard

Lady Jane Grey

Guildford Dudley

Sir James Melville

Doctor Burcot

Mary Sidney

Duke of Norfolk

Mrs. Pinto

Fenelon

Dwarf 'Elizabeth'

Dwarf 'Leicester'

Jacques

Court Official

Preacher

Sir Anthony Babington

Thomas Phelippes

William Davison

John Ballard

Sir Edward Kelley

Dr. John Dee

John Savage

John Whitgift

Juan de Idiaquez

Santa Cruz

Father Robert Parsons

Luis Cabrera de Cordoba

Speaker of the Commons

Dutch Envoy

Old Soldier

Young Soldier

Sir Robert Cecil

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Christopher Blount

Elizabeth Vernon

Lady Rich

Lady Essex

King Richard

Bolingbroke

Gaoler

Harper

Irish Peasant