The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Edouard VII, Prince and King
Jean Roussel
Capt. Charles Roussel
Sylvia Clayton
Queen Victoria
President Emile Loubet
Georges Clemenceau
German ambassador
Lord Clayton
Queen Alexandra
Actress
Lady Clayton
Music Hall Star
Marjorie, lady-in-waiting
Prince Consort
Lord Salisbury
Arthur Balfour
Joë Chamberlain
Deputy Roussel
Paul Cambon
Prince of Bulow
Russian ambassador
Valet
Maître d'hôtel
Concierge
Secretary
Journalist
Coachman
Théophile Delcassé
General Kitchener
Concierge’s daughter
Lady-in-waiting
Jeanne Granier
Lady of the Court
Madame de Lormes
Madame de Vaumoise
The beautiful Otéro
Captain Marchand
Sir Arthur
Ambassador
Coachman
Doctor
Journalist
Maître d'hôtel (uncredited)
Little Prince (uncredited)
Extra (uncredited)
Newspaper crier (uncredited)