| | | | Part One |
| | Henry | VIII | The King. |
| | Anne | Boleyn | Queen of England. |
| | Francis | Bryan | A nimble courtier. |
| | Kingston | | The constable, gambler. Eliza's brother. |
| | Thomas | Wyatt | A diplomat. Cromwell's friend. |
| | Thomas | Boleyn | Anne's father. Earl of Wiltshire. |
| | Lord | Lisle | The governor. King's uncle. |
| | Nicolas | Carew | A prominent courtier. |
| | Eliza | Carew | Nicolas's wife. Francis Bryan's sister. |
| | Thomas | Cromwell | Lord Cromwell. The Secretary to the King. Aka: Lord Privy Seal. |
| | Eustache | Chapuys | The imperial ambassador. |
| | Charles | Brandon | Duke of Suffolk. |
| | George | Boleyn | Anne's brother. Deceased. Aka: Viscount Rochford. |
| | Mary | Shelton | Anne Boleyn's cousin. |
| | William | Brereton | The gentlemen in King's circle. |
| | Gregory | Cromwell | Thomas's son. |
| | Henry | Fitzroy | The Duke of Richmond. The King's
illegitimate son. |
| | John | Shelton | The King's governor. |
| | Katherine | Howard | Henry's fifth wife. |
| | Bess | Darrell | Lady-in-waiting to Katharine of Aragon. Wyatt's mistress. |
| | Richard | Cromwell | Thomas's nephew. |
| | Martin | | A goaler. |
| | Jane | Seymour | The King's wife. |
| | Henry | Norris | The Chief of the King's privy chambers. |
| | Dick | Purser | Thomas Cromwell's keeper. |
| | Christophe | | Thomas Cromwell's servant. |
| | Rafe | Sadler | Thomas Cromwell's chief clerk. |
| | Helen | Sadler | Rafe's wife. |
| | Lady | Mary | The King's daughter by Katharine of Aragon. |
| | Elizabeth | | The King's daughter to Anne Boleyn. |
| | William | | The physician. |
| | Thomas | Wriothesley | The Prince of Decipherers. |
| | Stephen | Gardiner | Bishop of Winchester. Ambassador to France. |
| | Francis | Weston | The gentlemen in King's circle. |
| | Mark | Smeaton | A flute player. |
| | Mercy | Prior | Thomas Cromwell's mother-in-law. |
| | Thomas | Avery | Thomas Cromwell's household accountant. |
| | Mathew | | A servant. |
| | King | Edward | The former King. |
| | Margaret | Douglas | The King's niece. |
| | Walter | Cromer | The physician. |
| | Hans | Holbein | The painter. |
| | Sexton | | A jester. |
| | Richard | Riche | Speaker of the House of Commons. Chancellor of the court of augmentations. |
| | Thomas | Audley | The lord chancellor. |
| | Thomas | Cranmer | The archbishop of
Canterbury. |
| | Anne | Stanhope | Edward Seymour's wife. |
| | Hugh | Latimer | The Bishop of Worcester. |
| | Cuthbert | Tunstall | The Bishop of Durham. |
| | Thomas | Howard | Duke of Norfolk. |
| | Henry | Howard | Thomas's son. The Earl of Surrey. |
| | Tom | Truth | Thomas's half brother. |
| | Charles | Brandon | Duke of Suffolk. |
| | Henry | Wyatt | Thomas Wyatt's father. |
| | William | Fitzwilliam | Cromwell's treasurer. |
| | Jane | Rochford | George Boleyn's widow. |
| | Anne | Shelton | John's wife. Anne Boleyn's aunt. |
| | Lady | Bryan | Eliza Carew and Francis Bryan's mother. |
| | Margaret | Pole | Countess of Salisbury. |
| | Lord | Montague | Margaret Pole's eldest son. |
| | Reginald | Pole | One of Margaret's sons. |
| | Geofreey | Pole | One of Margaret's sons. |
| | Constance | Pole | Geoffrey's wife. |
| | Jean | De Dinteville | A French envoy. |
| | Humphrey | Monmouth | The London merchant. Cromwell's friend. |
| | Robert | Packinton | Merchant and member of the parliament. |
| | Stephen | Vaughan | An Antwerp merchant. |
| | | | Part Two |
| | Henry | Courtenay | Marquis of Exeter. |
| | Gertrude | Courtenay | Marquis of Exeter's wife. |
| | Edward | Seymour | Lady Margery's son. |
| | Margaret | Vernon | Gregory's tutor. |
| | Frances | Murfyn | Richard's wife. |
| | Bastings | | The barge master. |
| | Elizabeth | Zouche | The abbess. |
| | Bessie | Blount | The King's mistress. Henry's mother. Aka: Elizabeth Blount. |
| | Antoine | De Castelnau | Bishop of Tarbes. French ambassador. |
| | Louis | De Perreau | The French Ambassador. |
| | | | Part Three |
| | Honor | Lisle | Lord Lisle's wife. |
| | Jenneke | | Thomas Cromwell's daughter. |
| | Anna | | The King's 4th wife. Duke Wilhelm of Cleve's sister. |
| | John | Husee | The Lisle's man of business. |
| | Edward | Bonner | Ambassador to France. |
| | Mary | Mounteagle | The lady-in-waiting. |
| | Diego Hurtado | De Mendoza | An envoy from the emperor. |
| | Anne | Bassett | One of Honor's daughters from her first marriage. |
| | Edmund | Walsingham | Kingston's deputy. |
| | | | Part Four |
| | John | Lambert | The burned priest. |
| | William | Kingston | Constable of the tower.
Councilor to the king. |
| | John | Bale | A renegade monk and playwright. |
| | | | Part Five |
| | John | Chambers | The physician. |
| | Thomas | Seymour | The brother of the late Queen. |
| | Henry | Bouchier | Earl of Essex. |
| | Dorothea | Clancey | The
illegitimate child of the cardinal. |
| | Charles | De Marillac | A French Ambassador. |
| | Hochsteden | | One of Anne's envoys. |
| | Olisleger | | One of Anne's envoys. |
| | Harst | | One of Anne's envoys. |
| | | | Part Six |
| | Elizabeth | | Edward Seymour's sister. |
