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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
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Edward Fox
King Edward VIII
C
Cynthia Harris
Wallis Warfield Simpson
D
David Waller
Stanley Baldwin
P
Peggy Ashcroft
Queen Mary
N
Nigel Hawthorne
Walter Monkton
J
John Shrapnel
Maj. Alexander Hardinge
A
Andrew Ray
Duke of York
J
Jessie Matthews
Aunt Bessie Merryman
C
Charles Keating
Ernest Simpson
A
Amanda Reiss
Duchess of York
T
T.R. Bowen
Duff Cooper
P
Patricia Hodge
Lady Diana Cooper
E
Elsie Randolph
Lady Colefax
G
Gary Waldhorn
Chips Channon
N
Nuala Barrie
Queen Mary's Lady in Waiting
P
Patrick Troughton
Clement Attlee
W
Wensley Pithey
Winston Churchill
M
Marius Goring
King George V
M
Maurice Denham
Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury
E
Edward Jewesbury
Lord Dawson