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Edward & Mrs. Simpson

Year:
Duration:
UK:60 min (6 episodes) | USA:350 min
Genres:
Drama | History | Romance
IMDB rate:
7.5
Awards:
Won Primetime Emmy. Another 5 wins & 5 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1980-01-23
Filming Locations: Fort Belvedere, Windsor Great Park, Surrey, England, UK
Cast
Actor
Character
Edward Fox
King Edward VIII
Cynthia Harris
Wallis Warfield Simpson
David Waller
Stanley Baldwin
Peggy Ashcroft
Queen Mary
Nigel Hawthorne
Walter Monkton
John Shrapnel
Major Alexander Hardinge
Andrew Ray
Duke of York
Jessie Matthews
Aunt Bessie Merryman
Peter Ellis
Osborne (4 episodes, 1978)
Charles Keating
Ernest Simpson
Amanda Reiss
Duchess of York
Nuala Barrie
Queen Mary's Lady in Waiting (3 episodes, 1978)
T.R. Bowen
Duff Cooper
Patricia Hodge
Lady Diana Cooper
Wensley Pithey
Winston Churchill
Elsie Randolph
Lady Colefax (3 episodes, 1978)
Patrick Troughton
Clement Attlee
Rosanne Wickes
Princess Mary (3 episodes, 1978)
Did you know?
Trivia
Bessie Love (Emerald Cunard) died on April 26, 1986, only two days after Wallis Simpson (the Duchess of Windsor).
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David Waller would later reprise his role of Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) in The Woman He Loved (1988), which also dealt with the Edward VIII abdication crisis.
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Edward Fox's first wife, Tracy Reed, was the granddaughter of Freda Dudley Ward, Edward VIII's mistress when he was Prince of Wales.
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Photos from cast
Gary Waldhorn
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