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Cast

Steve John Shepherd

Steve John Shepherd

Narrator

David Calder

David Calder

Cosmo Gordon Lang

Rupert Procter

Rupert Procter

Alan Don

Hugo Vickers

Hugo Vickers

Self - Royal Biographer

Robert Beaken

Robert Beaken

Self - Author, 'Cosmo Lang, Archbishop in War and Crisis'

Matthew Grimley

Matthew Grimley

Matthew Grimley: Self - University of Oxford

Philip Ziegler

Philip Ziegler

Philip Ziegler: Self - Official Biographer, Edward VIII

Susan Williams

Susan Williams

Susan Williams: Self - Author, 'The People's King'

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Denys Blakeway

Denys Blakeway

Executive Producer

Louise Wardle

Louise Wardle

Producer

Louise Wardle

Louise Wardle

Director

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Edward VIII: The Plot to Topple a King

20130.0 / 1048 min
Documentary

Overview

Ever since King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, the official explanation had been simply that the government disapproved of his marriage to a twice-divorced woman. However newly-released documents, embargoed until recently, suggest that Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang, played a large part in a plan to make certain that Edward VIII abdicated, not only because of his marriage to a divorcee but also because the archbishop disapproved of the King's whole lifestyle and modern attitudes to life.