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.
as King Edward VIII
as Wallis Warfield Simpson
as Stanley Baldwin
as Queen Mary
as Walter Monkton
as Maj. Alexander Hardinge
as Duke of York
as Aunt Bessie Merryman
as Ernest Simpson
as Osborne
as Duchess of York
as Duff Cooper
as Lady Diana Cooper
as Lady Colefax
as Chips Channon
as Queen Mary's Lady in Waiting
as Princess Mary
as Clement Attlee
as Winston Churchill
as King George V
as Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury
as Lord Dawson
as Maj. John Aird
as Anthony Eden
as Sir Donald Somervell
as Theodore Goddard
as Lord Beaverbrook
as Geoffrey Dawson
as Lord Perry Brownlow
as Esmond Harmsworth
as Freda Dudley Ward
as Lady Thelma Furness
as Piers Leigh
as Angie
as Lady Cunard
