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
Editing by	Melanie Viner-Cuneo
Distributed by	ITV
Release date(s)	18 December 2005 (UK)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Wallis & Edward (in Canada 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. 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 - 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 - Elizabeth (The Queen Mother), 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

External links

• Wallis & Edward at the Internet Movie Database