Guest Stars Patrick Troughton as Duke of Norfolk Bernard Hepton as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer Sheila Burrell as Lady Rochford Basil Dignam as Bishop Gardiner Wolfe Morris as Thomas Cromwell Alison Frazer as Princess Mary John Ronane as Thomas Seymour Daniel Moynihan as Edward Seymour Gillian Bailey as Dorothy Seymour Jo Kendall as Anne Stanhope Howard Lang as Sir John Seymour William Abney as Sir Francis Bryan Louis Haslar as Sir Nicholas Carew Dorothy Black as Lady Margaret Seymour Marion Mathie as Lady Exeter Uncredited Anthony Quayle voices Narrator