What's the Monarchy For? (2025) | Full Cast

Vicki Cooper

DIRECTOR

David Dimbleby

WRITER

David Dimbleby

Self - Presenter

Ian Hislop

Self - Editor, Private Eye

Ash Sarkar

Self - Journalist and Contributing Editor, Novara Media

Dickie Arbiter

Self

Nicholas Soames

Self - Former Conservative MP and Friend of King Charles III

Anna Whitelock

Self - Professor of History of Monarchy, University of London

Valentine Low

Self - Royal Correspondent, The Times, 2008-2023

Kristina Kyriacou

Self - Communications Secretary to the Prince of Wales, 2009-2016

Robin Janvrin

Self - Private Secretary to the Sovereign, 1999-2007

Edward Young

Self - Private Secretary to the Sovereign, 2017-2023

David Cameron

Self - Prime Minister, 2010-2016

Jeremy Corbyn

Self - Leader of the Opposition, 2015-2020

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Self - Leader of the House of Commons, 2019-2022

Rory Sutherland

Self - Advertising Executive, Ogilvy UK

George Osborne

Self - Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2010-2016

Toyin Agbetu

Self - Writer & Lecturer in Social and Political Anthropology, UCL

Sathnam Sanghera

Self - Author: 'Empireworld'

Mary McAleese

Self - President of Ireland, 1997-2011

Graham Smith

Self - CEO, Republic

Paul Richards

Self - Government Special Adviser, 2005-2009

Dominic Grieve

Self - Attorney General, 2010-2018

David Pegg

Self - Investigations Correspondent, The Guardian, 2021-2025

Ed Perkins

Self - Deputy Press Secretary to the Sovereign, 2010-2012