- Writer:
- Rosemary Anne Sisson
- Costumes:
- Elizabeth Waller
- Make-up:
- Dawn Alcock
- Lighting:
- Robert Wright
- Music:
- David Munrow
- Designer:
- Richard Henry
- Producer:
- Roderick Graham
- Director:
- Herbert Wise
- Elizabeth I:
- Glenda Jackson
- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester:
- Robert Hardy
- Spanish Ambassadors - Bishop de Quadra:
- Esmond Knight
- Spanish Ambassadors - Count de Feria:
- Leonard Sachs
- William Cecil:
- Ronald Hines
- Earl of Sussex:
- John Shrapnel
- Duke of Norfolk:
- David Strong
- Mary Sidney, sister to Earl of Leicester:
- Caroline Harris
- Henry Sidney, her husband:
- Anthony Ainley
- Amye Dudley, wife to Earl of Leicester:
- Stacey Tendeter
- Mrs Pinto, Amye Dudley's housekeeper:
- Clare Austin
- Kat Ashley:
- Rachel Kempson
- Dr Burcot:
- Denis Carey
- Sir James Melville, Scottish Ambassador:
- John Cairney
- Mary, Queen of Scots:
- Vivian Pickles
- Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex:
- Angela Thorne