| | Bertie and Elizabeth The Reluctant Royals - The Story of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth by James Wilby, Alan Bates, Eileen Atkins, Juliet Aubrey, Charles Edwards, Dolly Wells, William Mickleburgh, Nigel Williams, Rex Maidment, Hilary Benson, Jo Willett, Jonathan Powell, Michael Whitehall, Rebecca Eaton, Amber Rose Sealey, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Hannah Wiltshire, Robert Hardy, Oliver Ford Davies, Graham Bill, Deborah Cornelius, Naomi Martin, Alexandra Staden, Jeremy Child, David Hatton, Rupert Wickham, Jeremy Swift, Simon Day, Anthony Smee, directed by Giles Foster Dvd, Published 2005 by Pbs Multiple Formats, Closed-Captioned, Color, Ntsc ISBN-13: 978-1-59375-240-8, ISBN: 1-59375-240-7
"James Wilby (Gosford Park) and Juliet Aubrey (Middlemarch) portray the reluctant royals who became king and queen of England when Edward VIII gave up the throne for the woman he loved, on Bertie & Elizabeth. Albert, Duke of York, called Bertie, married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 after a storybook courtship. Expecting a life of genteel obscurity, they were thrust into the limelight in 1936 when Bertie's older brother, Edward ..."
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