Bertie and Elizabeth by Giles Foster
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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.
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Cast
James Wilby as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
Alan Bates as King George V
Juliet Aubrey as Queen Elizabeth
Eileen Atkins as Queen Mary
Dolly Wells as Princess Mary
Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Lady Mabel Airlie
Charles Edwards as David
Oliver Ford Davies as Archbishop Lang
Deborah Cornelius as Thelma Furness
Michael Elwyn as Lionel Logue
Amber Sealey as Wallis Simpson
Jeremy Child as Sir Samuel Hoare
David Ryall as Winston Churchill
Paul Brooke as Tommy Lascelles
David Burke as Lord Reith
Robert Hardy as President Roosevelt
Jeremy Swift as Royal Page
Helen Ryan as Queen Wilhelmina
Joanna Hole as East End woman
Elisabeth Dermot Walsh as Lillibet
Corin Redgrave as General Montgomery
Jack Whitehall as Little Boy (uncredited)
Denis Lill as Clement Attlee
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