Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978)

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 intention to marry her.

Edward and Mrs Simpson

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as King Edward VIII

as Wallis Warfield Simspon

as Stanley Baldwin

as Duke of York

Nigel Hawthorne

Nigel Hawthorne

as Walter Monkton

as Major Alexander Hardinge

Charles Keating

Charles Keating

as Ernest Simpson

Jessie Matthews

Jessie Matthews

as Aunt Bessie Merryman

as Duchess of York

as Chips Channon

Patrick Troughton

Patrick Troughton

as Clement Atlee

as Lady Diana Cooper

as Queen Mary’s Lady in Waiting

as Lady Colefax

as Winston Churchill

as Princess Mary

as Theodore Goddard

Geoffrey Lumsden

Geoffrey Lumsden

as Geoffrey Dawson

as King George V

as Lord Beaverbrook

as Anthony Eden

as Major John Aird

Edward Jewesbury

Edward Jewesbury

as Sir Donald Somervell

as Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury

as Duff Cooper (as Trevor Bowen)

as Esmond Harmsworth

as Sir John Reith

as Sir Harold Nicolson

as Stanley Bruce

as Sir Samuel Hoare

as Lady Thelma Furness

as Lord Kelmsley

as Mouth Organist

as Walter Frampton

as Freda Dudley Ward

Caroline Embling

Caroline Embling

as Sir Percy Watkins

as Colonial Wife

as Lady Furness’s Butler (uncredited)

as Hugh Lloyd Thomas (as Anthony Brown)

Peter Schofield

Peter Schofield

as King’s Secretary

as Radio Announcer

as Boy with Mouth Organ

as Humphrey Butler

as Godfrey Thomas

as Thomas Quinn

as Archibald Travers

Raymond Francis

Raymond Francis

as Mr Justice Hawke

as Norman Birkett K.C.

John Louis Mansi

John Louis Mansi

as Dante Busclia

Christopher Holmes

Christopher Holmes

as Stoker Aldridge (as Chris Holmes)

William Hoyland

William Hoyland

as Lord Perry Brownlow

as Major Edward Metcalfe

as Speaker of the House of Commons

as George Lambert

Caroline Mary Simmons

Caroline Mary Simmons

as Lady Alexandra Metcalfe

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

1x1

The little prince
1x2

Venus at the prow
1x3

The new king
1x4

The divorce
1x5

The decision
1x6

Proposals
1x7

The abdication

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