Wallis & Edward

Wallis and Edward
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Directed by	Dave Moore
Produced by	Mark Pybus
Written by	Sarah Williams
Starring	Joely Richardson Steven Campbell Moore
Music by	John E. Keane
Cinematography	Mike Eley
Edited by	Melanie Viner-Cuneo
Distributed by	ITV
Release dates	18 December 2005 (2005-12-18)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Wallis & Edward (in Canada also known as Her Royal Affair^[1]) is a 2005 British made-for-TV movie, scripted by Sarah Williams, dramatising the events of the Edward VIII abdication crisis. It was billed as the first scripted account of the romance between Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII of the United Kingdom to view events from Wallis Simpson's point of view.^[2] Joely Richardson played Wallis, and Steven Campbell Moore, Edward. It is comparable to the 2002 Bertie and Elizabeth, covering some of the same subject matter in a similar style, but from the point of view of Edward's brother Albert (George VI) and sister-in-law Elizabeth.

Cast

Joely Richardson - Wallis Simpson
Steven Campbell Moore - Edward VIII
David Westhead - Ernest Simpson, Wallis's second husband
Richard Johnson - prime minister Stanley Baldwin
Clifford Rose - George V, Edward's father
Margaret Tyzack - Queen Mary, Edward's mother
Bill Champion - Bertie (George VI), Edward's brother
Monica Dolan - (The Duchess of York later Queen Elizabeth), Edward's sister-in-law
David Calder - Winston Churchill
Miriam Margolyes - Bessie Merryman, Wallis' aunt
Lisa Kay - Mary Raffray, Ernest Simpson's wife after Wallis
Helena Michell - Thelma Furness, Edward's love interest before Wallis
Simon Hepworth - "Perry" Brownlow, equerry to Edward
Debora Weston - Katherine "Kitty" Rogers, friend of Wallis
Mykolas Dorofejus - Herman Rogers, friend of Wallis

References

↑ IMDb: Wallis & Edward alternative title Retrieved 2012-01-20
↑ "Wallis & Edward". BBC Worldwide Americas Inc. Archived from the original on 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2007-04-04.

External links

Wallis & Edward at the Internet Movie Database

Edward VIII abdication crisis

Edward VIII Wallis Simpson

Prince Albert (Edward VIII's brother, later George VI) Stanley Baldwin (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) Alfred Blunt (Bishop of Bradford) John Theodore Goddard (Mrs. Simpson's solicitor) Alec Hardinge (Edward VIII's private secretary) J. B. M. Hertzog (Prime Minister of South Africa) Cosmo Gordon Lang (Archbishop of Canterbury) Joseph Lyons (Prime Minister of Australia) William Lyon Mackenzie King (Prime Minister of Canada) Queen Mary (Edward VIII's mother) Walter Monckton (advisor to Edward VIII) Michael Joseph Savage (Prime Minister of New Zealand) Ernest Simpson (Mrs. Simpson's husband) Éamon de Valera (President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State)

Legal documents	Succession to the Throne Act 1937 (Canada) Executive Authority (External Relations) Act 1936 (Ireland) His Majesty King Edward the Eighth's Abdication Act, 1937 (South Africa) His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 (United Kingdom)

Cultural depictions	Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978) The Woman He Loved (1988) Wallis & Edward (2005) The King's Speech (2010) W.E. (2012)

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