Keira Knightley as The Princess

Felicity Jones as Alice

Camilla Power as Dora

Nicholas Farrell as Bastable

Peter Capaldi as Jellicoe

Ian Richardson as Haig

Janet Henfrey as Governess

Patsy Byrne as Eliza

Kristopher Milnes as Oswald

Ben Simpson as Noel

Alexander Harding as Albert

Tom Georgeson as Bates

James Wilby as Henry Carlisle

Gina McKee as Mary Leslie

Roger Sloman as Wiggins

Nigel Davenport as Lord Blackstock

John Sessions as Redman

Donald Sinden as Old Wincott

Dermot Keaney as Burglar

Peter Jeffrey as Wentworth

Ann Firbank as Emily