Michael Ball
— Henry Purcell
Simon Callow
— Charles II
Rebecca Front
— Mary II
Lucy Speed
— Nell Gwyn
Letitia Dean
— Lady Castlemaine
Nina Young
— Frances Purcell
John Shrapnel
— Samuel Pepys
Robert Stephens
— John Dryden
Terence Rigby
— Captain Henry Cooke
Corin Redgrave
— William of Orange
John Fortune
— Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
Guy Henry
— James II
James Saxon
— Vyner
Brook Williams
— Priest