Wallis - The Life and Legends of Wallis Simpson

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Reviled for the King's abdication, what was the Duchess of Windsor really like?

Reviled for the King’s abdication, what was the Duchess of Windsor really like? Elizabeth Proud’s drama stars Stockard Channing.

1986: Wallis Simpson is facing a lonely and miserable death, a virtual prisoner of her obsessive lawyer, Maitre Blum. 

As the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis was reviled for causing King Edward VIII to abdicate his throne to marry her. 

But what was she really like?

Starring Stockard Channing.

Elizabeth Proud's three-part drama about the Duchess of Windsor.

Wallis Simpson .... Stockard Channing
Maitre Blum .... Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Win Spencer .... Lewis Hancock
Ernest Simpson/Commander Lewis Little .... Stephen Thorne
Bessie Merryman .... Helen Horton
Anna Warfield/Foxie .... Jill Graham
Georges/Robbie …. Chris Emmett
Uncle Sol .... Ed Bishop
Nurse Christine/Corinne Mustin .... Sara Coward
Nurse Dominique/Mary Raffray .... Susan Bovell
Kitty Rogers .... Teresa Gallagher
Bigelow/Hugh .... Peter MacQueen
Herman Rogers/Chevy Chevalier .... William Dufris

Producer: Sue Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1996.

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Stockard Channing stars in Elizabeth Proud's drama about the Duchess of Windsor

Stockard Channing stars in Elizabeth Proud's drama about the Duchess of Windsor at the centre of the abdication crisis. What was she really like?

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