Edward & Mrs. Simpson

350 minutes

11/6/1978

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 List

Edward Fox
as King Edward VIII
Cynthia Harris
as Wallis Warfield Simpson
David Waller
as Stanley Baldwin
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
Peter Ellis
as Osborne
Amanda Reiss
as Duchess of York
T.R. Bowen
as Duff Cooper
Patricia Hodge
as Lady Diana Cooper
Elsie Randolph
as Lady Colefax
Gary Waldhorn
as Chips Channon
Nuala Barrie
as Queen Mary's Lady in Waiting
Rosanne Wickes
as Princess Mary
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
Michael Stroud
as Esmond Harmsworth
Kika Markham
as Freda Dudley Ward
Cherie Lunghi
as Lady Thelma Furness
Jeremy Child
as Piers Leigh
Caroline Embling
as Angie
Bessie Love
as Lady Cunard