Wallis and Edward

Wallis & Edward (also known as Her Royal Affair) is a 2005 British made-for-TV movie, 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.^[1] 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 George and sister-in-law Elizabeth.

Cast

• Joely Richardson - Wallis Simpson
• Steven Campbell Moore - Edward VIII
• David Westhead - Wallis's second husband Ernest
• Richard Johnson - prime minister Stanley Baldwin
• Clifford Rose - George
• Lisa Kay - Mary Raffray
• Helena Michell - Thelma Furness
• Simon Hepworth - Perry Brownlow
• Bill Champion - Bertie
• Monica Dolan - Elizabeth
• Debora Weston - Kitty Rogers
• Mykolas Dorofejus - Herman Rogers
• Margaret Tyzack - Queen Mary
• Miriam Margolyes - Aunt Bessie
• David Calder - Winston Churchill

DVD

This production was released on DVD by Acorn Media UK.

References

1. ^ "Wallis & Edward". BBC Worldwide Americas Inc. Archived from the original on 2007-02-22. http://web.archive.org/web/20070222202329/http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/191/index.jsp. Retrieved 2007-04-04. 

External links

• Wallis and Edward at the Internet Movie Database