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Diana Rigg Narrator
Dorothea Myer-Bennett Elizabeth Montagu
Laurence Kennedy John, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
Annie Fraser Hazlitt Young Elizabeth
Anna Skye Mother - Lady Montagu
Montserrat Roig de Puig Renata Borgatti
Martin Wimbush Varley
Sasha Waddell Paulette Goddard
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