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Bertie and Elizabeth

Year:

2002

Duration:

USA:120 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

7.3

Director:

Giles Foster

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2002-04-02

Filming Locations: Assembly Rooms, Bath, Somerset, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Elisabeth Dermot Walsh

Bertie and Elizabeth

Jeremy Swift

James Wilby

King George VI, aka 'Bertie'

Alan Bates

King George V

Eileen Atkins

Queen Mary

Dolly Wells

Princess Mary

William Mickleburgh

James Stuart

Juliet Aubrey

Queen Elizabeth

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Lady Mabel Airlie

Rupert Wickham

Equerry

Charles Edwards

David - Edward VIII

Alexandra Staden

Young Woman

Nicholas Pritchard

J.C. Davidson

Oliver Ford Davies

Archbishop Lang

Geoffrey Beevers

Earl of Strathmore

Deborah Cornelius

Thelma Furness

Michael Elwyn

Lionel Logue

Amber Sealey

Wallis Simpson

Anthony Smee

Ernest Simpson

Naomi Martin

Young Lillibet

Jenna Molloy

Young Margaret

Moray Watson

Lord Dawson

Gabrielle Lloyd

Alah

Peter Eyre

Butler Simpson

Jeremy Child

Sir Samuel Hoare

David Ryall

Winston Churchill

Paul Brooke

Tommy Lascelles

Osmund Bullock

Radio Commentator

David Hatton

Bishop of Norwich

David Burke

Lord Reith

Simon Day

Robert Wood

Robert Hardy

President Roosevelt

Irene Richards

Eleanor Roosevelt

Helen Ryan

Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands

Joanna Hole

East End Woman

Michael Sherlock

East End Child

Ted Shepherd

East End Man

Hannah Wiltshire

Margaret

Corin Redgrave

General Montgomery

Denis Lill

Clement Attlee

Terence Harvey

Sir Clement Price Thomas

Graham Bill

James MacDonald

Paul Aubrey-Rees

Press Photographer (uncredited)

Simon Paisley Day

Arthur Wood (uncredited)

Jack Whitehall

Little Boy (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Denis Lill (Clement Attlee) previously played King George VI in The Gathering Storm (1974) and his paternal grandfather King Edward VII in Lillie (1978).

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In a career rarity, Robert Hardy appears in this film, but not as British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Instead, he plays Churchill's counterpart, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Goofs

The Duchess of York is shown as being pregnant at the time of her and the Duke's first visit to Lionel Logue. In fact, the visit took place in October of 1926 when the infant Princess Elizabeth was already six months old.

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When Montgomery comes to the palace after the Battle of Alamein, Princess Elizabeth is wearing ATS uniform. Alamein was in 1942. Elizabeth didn't join the Army until 1945 (she was only 16 in 1942).

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Just before his coronation, the new king George VI describes the coronation crown as Edward the Confessor's Crown. He would presumably know that the crown is in fact a replica created for the coronation of Charles II, although it is often referred to as St. Edward's crown (Edward the Confessor having been made a saint).

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Quotes

King George V: I have no pretensions of being able to run anything. But I do know a few fellows who can. I'm a very ordinary sort of chap... as are you, David. The difference between us is that you seem to be unaware of this very important fact.

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Queen Mary: I think my son is rather keen on the Strathmore girl.

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Archbishop Lang: My feeling, Sir, is that the wedding of these two young people - the Duke and Duchess of York - should be filmed, if that is thought appropriate, but not be allowed to be recorded over the wireless. The people might listen to it in *inappropriate* places.

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