Overview
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
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