John Major

John Major arrives as Britain's new Prime Minister, quieter and less combative than his predecessor. Unassuming and methodical, he's underestimated by press and colleagues alike — dismissed as grey, ordinary, a caretaker. Yet he's pulled quickly into the Windsors' private troubles, called upon to offer counsel on matters well beyond Downing Street's usual remit.

Miller plays him as competence without swagger — a man who listens more than he postures, which makes him oddly disarming next to a royal family used to being managed rather than heard. The performance finds dry humor and quiet steel in Major's ordinariness, turning a historical footnote into someone genuinely worth watching think.