Bertie and Elizabeth
Bertie and Elizabeth
Release: 2002-06-04
·Runtime: 108m
·★ 5.9
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Whitehall Films
Carlton Television
GBH
Cast
Helen Ryan
as Queen Wilhelmina
Corin Redgrave
as General Montgomery
Jack Whitehall
as Little Boy (uncredited)
Alan Bates
as King George V
Juliet Aubrey
as Queen Elizabeth
Eileen Atkins
as Queen Mary
Michael Elwyn
as Lionel Logue
Amber Sealey
as Wallis Simpson
David Ryall
as Winston Churchill
Jeremy Swift
as Royal Page
James Wilby
as King George VI, aka 'Bertie'
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
as Lady Mabel Airlie
Charles Edwards
as David
Oliver Ford Davies
as Archbishop Lang
Paul Brooke
as Tommy Lascelles
Elisabeth Dermot Walsh
as Lillibet
Denis Lill
as Clement Attlee
Deborah Cornelius
as Thelma Furness
Dolly Wells
as Princess Mary
Jeremy Child
as Sir Samuel Hoare
David Burke
as Lord Reith
Robert Hardy
as President Roosevelt
