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Theme music composer
  
Miguel d'Oliveira

No. of episodes
  
5

Final episode date
  
3 December 2009

7.3/10
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Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

First episode date
  
28 November 2009

Network
  
Channel 4

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Written by
  
Colin Swash Edmund Coulthard Patrick Reams

Directed by
  
Edmund Coulthard Patrick Reams

Starring
  
Emilia Fox Samantha Bond Susan Jameson Barbara Flynn Diana Quick Katie McGrath

Cast
  
Katie McGrath, Emilia Fox, Samantha Bond, Barbara Flynn, Susan Jameson

The Queen was a 2009 British drama-documentary showing Queen Elizabeth II at different points during her life. Broadcast on Channel 4 over five consecutive nights from 29 November 2009, the Queen was 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.

Contents

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

  • Samantha Bond as Elizabeth II
  • Barbara Flynn as Elizabeth II
  • Emilia Fox as Elizabeth II
  • Susan Jameson as Elizabeth II
  • Diana Quick as Elizabeth II
  • Philip Jackson as Harold Wilson
  • Lesley Manville as Margaret Thatcher
  • Katie McGrath as Princess Margaret
  • Paul Rhys as Prince Charles
  • Martin Turner as Prince Charles
  • Peter Davison as Denis Thatcher
  • Richard Derrington as Willie Hamilton
  • Dominic Jephcott as Robert Fellowes
  • Tristan Sturrock as Peter Townsend
  • Joanna Van Gyseghem as Camilla
  • Roger Alborough as William Heseltine
  • Abby Ford as Princess Anne
  • Ian Shaw as Richard Aylard
  • Anthony Smee as Robin Janvrin
  • Simon Williams as Alan 'Tommy' Lascelles
  • Rick Bacon as Mark Bollard
  • Clive Francis as Prince Philip
  • Emily Hamilton as Princess Diana
  • Graham O'Mara as Ian Ball
  • Robert Bathurst as Anthony Eden
  • Lucy Chalkley as Sarah Ferguson
  • Simon Shackleton as Nigel Wicks
  • Hugh Simon as Stephen Lamport
  • June Bailey as the Queen Mother
  • Jonathan Hyde as Martin Charteris
  • Michael Maloney as Michael Shea
  • Doreen Mantle as the Queen Mother
  • Robert Ashby as King Constantine II
  • Paul Clayton as Bernard Ingham
  • Kenneth Colley as Prince Philip
  • Nicholas Le Prevost as Prince Philip
  • Lloyd McGuire as Edward Heath
  • Ryan Quish as Mark Phillips
  • Christian Wolf-La'Moy as William Bartholomew
  • Production

    The series was shot in Southern England. Locations used in the filming included Stourhead House, Longleat, Neston Park, Grittleton House, Knebworth House and the Orchardleigh Estate.

    References

    The Queen (TV serial) Wikipedia