The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.

• Associated British Picture Corporation
• Clive Brook
• Madeleine Carroll
• Emlyn Williams
• Helen Haye
• Frank Cellier
• Isabel Jeans
• Alfred Drayton
• Nicholas Hannen