Crown Matrimonial by Royce Ryton

Saturday-Night Theatre
Sat 30th Oct 1976, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
West End Winners
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies and Peter Barkworth in Crown Matrimonial by Royce Ryton with Martin Jarvis, Jane Wenham and Rachel Kempson.Show more

The action of the play takes place in Queen Mary's private drawing-room at Marlborough House, London, in 1936. She is still Britain's only Queen, for her eldest son. King Edward VIII, has as yet no wife.

'It was strongly and skilfully cast. Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies had just the right touch of Imperial Germany in her sympathetic playing of Queen Mary, stiff-backed, compassionate, and with an over-riding sense of duty. Peter Barkworth and Martin Jarvis echoed believably the tones of Edward VIII and his brother who became George VI.' (Val Arnold-Forster, The Guardian)

Queen Mary: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Mabell, Countess of Airlie: Rachel Kempson
The Hon Margaret Wyndham: Hilda Schroder
King Edward VIII, David: Peter Barkworth
The Princess Royal, Mary: Rosalind Shanks
The Duchess of Gloucester: Alice Deborah Paige
Walter Monckton, KC: Peter Howell
The Duchess of York Elizabeth: Jane Wenham
The Duke of York Bertie: Martin Jarvis
Queen's Page:Anthony Smee
Narrator: Alvar Lidell
Produced/Director: Ian Cotterell

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