Guest Stars Patrick Troughton as Duke of Norfolk Bernard Hepton as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer Wolfe Morris as Thomas Cromwell Basil Dignam as Bishop Gardiner Angela Pleasence as Catherine Howard Patrick Godfrey as Sir Thomas Wriothesley Mollie Sugden as Lotte Carol MacReady as Amalie Michael Cullen as Servant Peter Reeves as Philip of Hesse Robert James as Robert Barnes Norman Atkyns as Henry's Gentleman Norman Tyrrell as Chancellor of Cleves James Mellor as Holbein William Maxwell as Duke Wilhelm of Cleves David Butler as Christopher Mont Jody Schaller as Princess Elizabeth Stephanie Lacey as Lady Frances Melanie Ackland as Lady Margaret Uncredited Anthony Quayle voices Narrator