Edward VIII: The Plot to Topple a King

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.

Documentary

Steve John Shepherd

(Narrator)

David Calder

(Cosmo Gordon Lang)

Rupert Procter

(Alan Don)

Hugo Vickers

(Self - Royal Biographer)

Robert Beaken

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

Matthew Grimley

(Matthew Grimley: Self - University of Oxford)

Philip Ziegler

(Philip Ziegler: Self - Official Biographer, Edward VIII)

Susan Williams

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