Film

Abdication: A Very British Coup

200659mDocumentary History

Director: Kate Werran
Year: 2006

Abdication: A Very British Coup is a 2006 BBC documentary that challenges the traditional "romance of the century" narrative surrounding King Edward VIII’s 1936 abdication, presenting it instead as a forced removal orchestrated by a powerful establishment coalition.

Top cast

Denys Blakeway

Narrator

Susan Williams

Self

Bill Deedes

Self

Philip Ziegler

Self

John Julius Norwich

Self

King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

Wallis Simpson

Self (archive footage)

Directed by

Kate Werran

Written by

Denys Blakeway

Produced by

Kate Werran