Guest Stars Bernard Hepton as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer Basil Dignam as Bishop Gardiner Alison Frazer as Princess Mary Patrick Godfrey as Sir Thomas Wriothesley John Ronane as Thomas Seymour Howard Goorney as Will Somers Daniel Moynihan as Edward Seymour Edward Atienza as Eustache Chapuys Karen Ford as Lady Maud Lane Elizabeth Bell as Anne Askew Jim Kennedy as Anthony Knevet Uncredited Anthony Quayle voices Narrator