Edward & Mrs. Simpson

Duration: 350 min

Release date: 1978-11-06

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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.

TV Movie Drama Romance

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

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as King Edward VIII

as Wallis Warfield Simpson

as Stanley Baldwin

Nigel Hawthorne

Nigel Hawthorne

as Walter Monkton

as Maj. Alexander Hardinge

as Duke of York

Jessie Matthews

Jessie Matthews

as Aunt Bessie Merryman

Charles Keating

Charles Keating

as Ernest Simpson

as Duchess of York

as Lady Diana Cooper

as Lady Colefax

as Chips Channon

as Queen Mary's Lady in Waiting

as Princess Mary

Patrick Troughton

Patrick Troughton

as Clement Attlee

as Winston Churchill

as King George V

as Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury

Edward Jewesbury

Edward Jewesbury

as Maj. John Aird

as Anthony Eden

as Sir Donald Somervell

as Theodore Goddard

as Lord Beaverbrook

Geoffrey Lumsden

Geoffrey Lumsden

as Geoffrey Dawson

William Hoyland

William Hoyland

as Lord Perry Brownlow

as Esmond Harmsworth

as Freda Dudley Ward

as Lady Thelma Furness

Caroline Embling

Caroline Embling

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Crew arrow_drop_down

Frances Donaldson

Frances Donaldson

Production Design

Production Design

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