

Edward & Mrs. Simpson
5 hours 50 minutes1978-11-06
10.0
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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
