Days That Shook the World

Season 2, Episode 10

Episode Title: Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn/The Abdication of Edward VIII

Air Date: 2004-12-20

Overview:

19 May 1536 and 10 December 1936 The Story of two English kings whose private affairs become national events - how the Queen of England gambled everything only to end her life on the scaffold and how the King put his love for a divorcee before his duty to the nation.