Sentences with phrase «brother abdicates»

But when his shallow, playboy brother abdicates, Bertie's speaking calender will only fill up as he becomes king.

A big budget movie with a heart, Tom Hooper's period drama starred Colin Firth as Bertie Windsor, Edward VII's painfully shy younger brother who's thrust into the limelight when his brother abdicates to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson in 1936.

When the Duke's love - struck elder brother abdicates the thrown upon his father's death, it is up to Albert to transform the stuttering Duke of York to King George VI, dignified king of England.

Not exact matches

Mr Miliband admitted it was «more than a little odd» to be facing his brother David in the race to lead Labour, but said he would have been «abdicating his responsibility» if he did not stand.

But as Bertie begins to make progress, his life takes a dramatic turn when his brother Edward VIII (Pearce) abdicates the throne, leaving Bertie in place as George VI just as war breaks out with Germany.

But, just as the God King of Egypt (Bryan Brown) is set to abdicate his throne and bestow the crown on his son Horus (Nikolaj Coster - Waldau), the King's malevolent brother Set (Gerard Butler) swoops in with his army and proclaims himself to be the new King.

After Edward (later the Duke of Windsor) abdicated for «the woman I love,» his younger brother the Duke of York (Colin Firth) became George VI.

And when his brother Edward (Guy Pearce) abdicates the throne and war looms, he reluctantly turns to Australian Doctor Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), a speech therapist whose unconventional methods bring faith to the new King's voice.

After King Edward VIII (later known as the Duke of Windsor) abruptly abdicated the British throne in 1936 to marry his mistress, Wallis Simpson, an American, and worse, a two - time divorcee, the succession fell to his brother, who eventually became George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II.