5. The Decision (1978)
Edward refuses all advice including warnings that press silence cannot last.
Release date: 1978-12-06
Season number: 1
Episode number: 5
Runtime: 60 minutes
Director: Waris Hussein
Guest stars
Terence Rigby
as Stanley Bruce
Geoffrey Lumsden
as Geoffrey Dawson
Andrew Ray
as Duke of York
Peggy Ashcroft
as Queen Mary
Gary Waldhorn
as Chips Channon
John Abbott
as Mouth Organist
Patrick Troughton
as Clement Atlee
Robert Flemyng
as Sir Donald Somervell
Patricia Hodge
as Lady Diana Cooper
Jessie Matthews
as Aunt Bessie Merryman
Nigel Hawthorne
as Walter Monkton
T.R. Bowen
as Duff Cooper (as Trevor Bowen)
Elsie Randolph
as Lady Colefax
John Shrapnel
as Major Alexander Hardinge
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David Waller - Stanley Baldwin, Peter Ellis - Osborne, Christopher Holmes - Stoker Aldridge (as Chris Holmes), Amanda Reiss - Duchess of York, Rosanne Wickes - Princess Mary