Keyword: abdication

A Very Royal Crisis: Countdown to Abdication

7.2

2023

TV

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This BBC Select Original Documentary series recounts the story behind the ten days leading to Edward VIII abdicating his throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. It would change the royals, the press and British history forever.

King Lear

6.2

2018

Movie

HD

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

Bertie and Elizabeth

7.2

2002

Movie

HD

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.