Bertie and Elizabeth

5.6

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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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

Oliver Ford Davies

Archbishop Lang

Deborah Cornelius

Thelma Furness

Michael Elwyn

Lionel Logue

Amber Sealey

Wallis Simpson

Jeremy Child

Sir Samuel Hoare

David Ryall

Winston Churchill

Paul Brooke

Tommy Lascelles

David Burke

Lord Reith

Robert Hardy

President Roosevelt

Jeremy Swift

Royal Page

Helen Ryan

Queen Wilhelmina

Joanna Hole

East End woman

Corin Redgrave

General Montgomery

Jack Whitehall

Little Boy (uncredited)

Denis Lill

Clement Attlee

Art

Martyn John

Production Design

Charlotte Dirickx

Set Decoration

Camera

Rex Maidment

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Frances Tempest

Costume Design

Christine Blundell

Makeup Artist

Directing

Giles Foster

Director

Editing

Production

Rebecca Eaton

Executive Producer

Jonathan Powell

Executive Producer

Michael Whitehall

Executive Producer

Jo Willett

Producer

Sound

Ilona Sekacz

Original Music Composer

Alistair Crocker

Sound Recordist

Jennie Evans

Sound Editor

Writing