Drama History Romance
The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI.
Directed by
Giles Foster
Written by
Nigel Williams
Robert Hardy
President Roosevelt
Jeremy Swift
Royal Page
David Burke
Lord Reith
Jack Whitehall
Little Boy (uncredited)
Eileen Atkins
Queen Mary
Juliet Aubrey
Queen Elizabeth
Dolly Wells
Princess Mary
David Ryall
Winston Churchill
Alan Bates
King George V
Elisabeth Dermot Walsh
Lillibet
Denis Lill
Clement Attlee
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Lady Mabel Airlie
James Wilby
King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
Oliver Ford Davies
Archbishop Lang
Charles Edwards
David
Paul Brooke
Tommy Lascelles
Helen Ryan
Queen Wilhelmina
Corin Redgrave
General Montgomery
Jeremy Child
Sir Samuel Hoare
Michael Whitehall
Michael Elwyn
Lionel Logue
Amber Sealey
Wallis Simpson
Deborah Cornelius
Thelma Furness
Joanna Hole
East End woman

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