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Cast

• Frances Cuka - Catherine of Aragon
• Charlotte Rampling - Anne Boleyn
• Jane Asher - Jane Seymour
• Jenny Bos - Anne of Cleves
• Lynne Frederick (wife of Peter Sellers) - Catherine Howard
• Barbara Leigh-Hunt - Catherine Parr
• Brian Blessed - Earl of Suffolk
• Bernard Hepton - Thomas Cranmer^[1]
• Donald Pleasence - Thomas Cromwell^[2]

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Anachronisms

• The part of the film covering Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn features some brief stock/agency footage of a number of British castles. This includes a modern boat's superstructure appearing briefly in the lower right-hand corner of the shot featuring a castle on a headland.

Notes

1. ^ The only actor besides Michell to play the same role in both the series and the film.
2. ^ Father of Angela Pleasence, who played Catherine Howard in the tv series.