• Jun 04, 2002
  • 108 min
  • Full-HD

Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)

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.

Category
Country
United Kingdom
Companies
Whitehall Films Carlton Television GBH

James Wilby

King George VI, aka 'Bertie'

Alan Bates

King George V

Juliet Aubrey

Queen Elizabeth

Eileen Atkins

Queen Mary

Dolly Wells

Princess Mary

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Lady Mabel Airlie

Charles Edwards

David

Oliver Ford Davies

Archbishop Lang

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