Edward & Mrs. Simpson
TV Movie
Drama
Romance
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.
1978-11-06
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Cast
Director
Waris Hussein
Edward Fox as King Edward VIII
Cynthia Harris as Wallis Warfield Simpson
Peggy Ashcroft as Queen Mary
Nigel Hawthorne as Walter Monkton
John Shrapnel as Maj. Alexander Hardinge
Andrew Ray as Duke of York
Jessie Matthews as Aunt Bessie Merryman
Charles Keating as Ernest Simpson
T.R. Bowen as Duff Cooper
Patricia Hodge as Lady Diana Cooper
Elsie Randolph as Lady Colefax
Gary Waldhorn as Chips Channon
Patrick Troughton as Clement Attlee
Wensley Pithey as Winston Churchill
Marius Goring as King George V
Maurice Denham as Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury
Edward Jewesbury as Lord Dawson
Simon Cadell as Maj. John Aird
Hugh Fraser as Anthony Eden
Robert Flemyng as Sir Donald Somervell
Gerald Sim as Theodore Goddard
Ed Devereaux as Lord Beaverbrook
Geoffrey Lumsden as Geoffrey Dawson
William Hoyland as Lord Perry Brownlow
Kika Markham as Freda Dudley Ward
Cherie Lunghi as Lady Thelma Furness
Jeremy Child as Piers Leigh
Bessie Love as Lady Cunard