Elizabeth: Queen of England
Mary Stuart: Queen of Scotland, a prisoner in England
Robert Dudley: Earl of Leicester
George Talbot: Earl of Shrewsbury
William Cecil: Lord Burleigh, Lord High Treasurer
Sir William Davison: Secretary of State
Sir Amias Paulet: knight, guardian of Mary
Sir Edward Mortimer: Paulet’s nephew
Count Aubespine: the French Ambassador
Count Bellievre: Envoy Extraordinary from France
O’Kelly: Mortimer’s Friend
Drugeon Drury: second guardian of Mary Stuart
Melvil: Mary Stuart’s house steward
Hannah Kennedy: Mary Stuart’s nurse
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