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Edward & Mrs. Simpson

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 |5h 50m |  TV Movie, Drama, Romance

Cast

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Edward Fox

King Edward VIII

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Cynthia Harris

Wallis Warfield Simpson

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Peggy Ashcroft

Queen Mary

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Nigel Hawthorne

Walter Monkton

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John Shrapnel

Maj. Alexander Hardinge

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Andrew Ray

Duke of York

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Jessie Matthews

Aunt Bessie Merryman

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Charles Keating

Ernest Simpson

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Patricia Hodge

Lady Diana Cooper

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Elsie Randolph

Lady Colefax

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Gary Waldhorn

Chips Channon

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Patrick Troughton

Clement Attlee

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Wensley Pithey

Winston Churchill

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Marius Goring

King George V

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Maurice Denham

Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury

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Edward Jewesbury

Lord Dawson

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Simon Cadell

Maj. John Aird

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Hugh Fraser

Anthony Eden

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Robert Flemyng

Sir Donald Somervell

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Gerald Sim

Theodore Goddard

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Ed Devereaux

Lord Beaverbrook

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Geoffrey Lumsden

Geoffrey Dawson

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William Hoyland

Lord Perry Brownlow

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Kika Markham

Freda Dudley Ward

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Cherie Lunghi

Lady Thelma Furness

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Jeremy Child

Piers Leigh

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Bessie Love

Lady Cunard

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Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

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