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  Diana Rigg

  Narrator (voice)
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  Dorothea Myer-Bennett

  Elizabeth Montagu (Liza)
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  James Hender

  Consulate Receptionist
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  Irene Marot

  Nanny
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  Anna Skye

  Mother - Lady Montagu
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  James Vaughan

  Captain Widnell
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  Laurence Kennedy

  John, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
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  Matt Devereaux

  Daddy Powles

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  Rachel Dale

  Pearl Pleydell-Bouverie
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  Nicola Stuart-Hill

  Gwe Ffrangcon-Davies
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  William Ludwig

  Consulate Official
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  Jacky Bahbout

  Marda Vanne
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  Annie Fraser Hazlitt

  Young Elizabeth
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  Jeremy Bruce Vyner

  Pascha Pleasant
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  Simon Woodley

  Etienne Amyot

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  Daniel Donskoy

  Karl