The Queen (British TV serial)
The Queen is a 2009 British docudrama showing Elizabeth II at various points during her life. Broadcast on Channel 4 over five consecutive nights from 29 November 2009, the Queen is portrayed by a different actress in each episode. The series was co-funded by the American Broadcasting Company, the network which aired the series in the US.
This marked the first of two times Emilia Fox and Katie McGrath portrayed sisters: they would go on to appear as Morgause and Morgana in BBC One's Merlin.
Cast
- Steven Mackintosh as the Narrator
Episode 1
- Emilia Fox as Elizabeth II
- Katie McGrath as Princess Margaret
- Tristan Sturrock as Peter Townsend
- Simon Williams as Alan "Tommy" Lascelles
- Robert Bathurst as Anthony Eden
Episode 2
- Samantha Bond as Elizabeth II
- Philip Jackson as Harold Wilson
- Richard Derrington as Willie Hamilton
- Abby Ford as Princess Anne
- Graham O'Mara as Ian Ball
- Jonathan Hyde as Martin Charteris
- Nicholas Le Prevost as Prince Philip
- Lloyd McGuire as Edward Heath
- Ryan Quish as Mark Phillips
Episode 3
- Susan Jameson as Elizabeth II
- Lesley Manville as Margaret Thatcher
- Peter Davison as Denis Thatcher
- Roger Alborough as William Heseltine
- Clive Francis as Prince Philip
- Simon Shackleton as Nigel Wicks
- Michael Maloney as Michael Shea
- Paul Clayton as Bernard Ingham
Episode 4
- Barbara Flynn as Elizabeth II
- Paul Rhys as Prince Charles
- Dominic Jephcott as Robert Fellowes
- Ian Shaw as Richard Aylard
- Emily Hamilton as Diana Spencer
- Lucy Chalkley as Sarah Ferguson
- Doreen Mantle as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Kenneth Colley as Prince Philip
- Christian Wolf-La'Moy as William Bartholomew
Episode 5
- Diana Quick as Elizabeth II
- Martin Turner as Prince Charles
- Joanna Van Gyseghem as Camilla Parker Bowles
- Anthony Smee as Robin Janvrin
- Rick Bacon as Mark Bolland
- Hugh Simon as Stephen Lamport
- June Bailey as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Robert Ashby as King Constantine II of Greece
- Davyd Harries as Clergyman