EDWARD & MRS. SIMPSON (1978)

Edward & Mrs. Simpson
10.0
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
TV Movie, Drama, Romance
November 6, 1978
English
5h 50m
United States
Thames Television

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 & Characters

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

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

Crew