Cast 29

Ian McShane
Benjamin Disraeli (4 episodes)

Rosemary Leach
Queen Victoria (4 episodes)

Mary Peach
Mary Anne (4 episodes)

David de Keyser
Baron de Rothschild (4 episodes)
Antony Brown
Sir Robert Peel (4 episodes)
Brendan Barry
Sir Stafford Northcote (4 episodes)

John Carlisle
W.E. Gladstone (3 episodes)

Maria Charles
Maria D'Israeli (2 episodes)

David Wood
Lord Derby (2 episodes)

Jeremy Clyde
Lord John Manners (2 episodes)

Aubrey Morris
Isaac D'Israeli (2 episodes)

Anton Rodgers
Lord George Bentinck (2 episodes)
Brewster Mason
Chancellor Bismarck (2 episodes)

Leigh Lawson
Count Alfred D'Orsay (2 episodes)

Mark Dignam
Lord Lyndhurst (2 episodes)

Godfrey Quigley
Daniel O'Connell (2 episodes)

William Russell
Wyndham Lewis (2 episodes)
Margaret Whiting
Lady Blessington (2 episodes)

John Gregg
Lord Salisbury (2 episodes)
Jenny Lipman
Sarah D'Israeli (2 episodes)

Patricia Hodge
Rosina Bulwer (1 episode)

Renée Asherson
Lady Bradford (1 episode)

Arnold Diamond
Speaker No. 3 (1 episode)

Suzanna Hamilton
Princess Alice (1 episode)

Llewellyn Rees
Lord Salisbury (1 episode)

Neville Phillips
Tory M.P. (1 episode)

Rachel Bell
Clara Bolton (1 episode)
Barrie Cookson
Lord Derby (1 episode)
Mervyn Pascoe
2nd Elector (1 episode)
Directing 1

Claude Whatham
Director (4 episodes)