Teach You a Lesson
2026 · Action & adventure · Drama
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TV series / 1978
Edward and Mrs Simpson
Episode directors
Waris Hussein
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intention to marry her.
The story
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intention to marry her.
Cast
Edward FoxKing Edward VIII
Cynthia HarrisWallis Warfield Simspon
David WallerStanley Baldwin
Andrew RayDuke of York
Peggy AshcroftQueen Mary
Nigel HawthorneWalter Monkton
John ShrapnelMajor Alexander Hardinge
Charles KeatingErnest Simpson
Peter EllisOsborne
Jessie MatthewsAunt Bessie Merryman
Amanda ReissDuchess of York
Gary WaldhornChips Channon
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Patrick TroughtonClement Atlee
Patricia HodgeLady Diana Cooper
Nuala BarrieQueen Mary’s Lady in Waiting
Elsie RandolphLady Colefax
Wensley PitheyWinston Churchill
Rosanne WickesPrincess Mary
Gerald SimTheodore Goddard
Geoffrey LumsdenGeoffrey Dawson
Marius GoringKing George V
Ed DevereauxLord Beaverbrook
Hugh FraserAnthony Eden
Simon CadellMajor John Aird
Edward JewesburyLord Dawson
Robert FlemyngSir Donald Somervell
Maurice DenhamCosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury
T.R. BowenDuff Cooper (as Trevor Bowen)
Michael StroudEsmond Harmsworth
John HarveySir John Reith
Roger HammondSir Harold Nicolson
Terence RigbyStanley Bruce
Tony ChurchSir Samuel Hoare
Cherie LunghiLady Thelma Furness
Richard WaringLord Darby
Bessie LoveLady Cunard
Jeremy ChildPiers Leigh
Jay NeillRSM Reeves
Clifford EarlFootman
David KingLord Kelmsley
John AbbottMouth Organist
Alec BregonziLuigi
Trevor RayWalter Frampton
Kika MarkhamFreda Dudley Ward
Caroline EmblingAngie
John KiddSir Percy Watkins
Roy PattisonCSM Owen
Derek FukeRQMS Neale
Petal AllenColonial Wife
Elin JenkinsMaid
Walter HenryLady Furness’s Butler (uncredited)
Antony BrownHugh Lloyd Thomas (as Anthony Brown)
Peter SchofieldHead Cook
Patrick BrockKing’s Secretary
Alvar LiddellRadio Announcer
Dominic CoxBoy with Mouth Organ
Roger HumeHumphrey Butler
Richard KayGodfrey Thomas
Hugh MartinOfficial
Julia McCarthyMrs Quinn
Phil McCaulThomas Quinn
Elaine WellsMrs Dalby
Peter ClaphamArchibald Travers
Raymond FrancisMr Justice Hawke
John HorsleyNorman Birkett K.C.
John Louis MansiDante Busclia
Christopher HolmesStoker Aldridge (as Chris Holmes)
William HoylandLord Perry Brownlow
Ron GregoryMajor Edward Metcalfe
Robert HarrisSpeaker of the House of Commons
Rodney LovickGeorge Lambert
Caroline Mary SimmonsLady Alexandra Metcalfe
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