Edward & Mrs. Simpson

5h 50m

TV Movie Drama Romance

10

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.

Cast

Edward Fox

King Edward VIII

Cynthia Harris

Wallis Warfield Simpson

David Waller

Stanley Baldwin

Peggy Ashcroft

Queen Mary

Nigel Hawthorne

Walter Monkton

John Shrapnel

Maj. Alexander Hardinge

Andrew Ray

Duke of York

Jessie Matthews

Aunt Bessie Merryman

Charles Keating

Ernest Simpson

Peter Ellis

Osborne

Amanda Reiss

Duchess of York

T.R. Bowen

Duff Cooper

Patricia Hodge

Lady Diana Cooper

Elsie Randolph

Lady Colefax

Gary Waldhorn

Chips Channon

Nuala Barrie

Queen Mary's Lady in Waiting

Rosanne Wickes

Princess Mary

Patrick Troughton

Clement Attlee

Wensley Pithey

Winston Churchill

Marius Goring

King George V

Maurice Denham

Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury

Edward Jewesbury

Lord Dawson

Simon Cadell

Maj. John Aird

Hugh Fraser

Anthony Eden

Robert Flemyng

Sir Donald Somervell

Gerald Sim

Theodore Goddard

Ed Devereaux

Lord Beaverbrook

Geoffrey Lumsden

Geoffrey Dawson

William Hoyland

Lord Perry Brownlow

Michael Stroud

Esmond Harmsworth

Kika Markham

Freda Dudley Ward

Cherie Lunghi

Lady Thelma Furness

Jeremy Child

Piers Leigh

Caroline Embling

Angie

Bessie Love

Lady Cunard

Crew

Waris Hussein

Director

Simon Raven

Writer

Frances Donaldson

Writer

Beryl Wilkins

Editor

Andrew Brown

Producer

Allan Cameron

Production Design

Martyn Hebert

Production Design

Joyce Gallie

Casting

David Graham

Casting

Jennie Tate

Costume Design

Diane Thurley

Costume Design

Angela Seyfang

Makeup Artist

Sally Thorpe

Makeup Artist

Ron Grainer

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