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Bertie and Elizabeth

56 %|Jul 7, 2002|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.

Featured Crew

Giles Foster
Director
Rebecca Eaton
Executive Producer
Jonathan Powell
Executive Producer
Michael Whitehall
Executive Producer
Jo Willett
Producer
Ilona Sekacz
Original Music Composer
Nigel Williams
Writer
Rex Maidment
Director of Photography

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Cast

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