About the movie
W.E. tells the story of two fragile but determined women - Wally Winthrop and Wallis Simpson - separated by more than six decades. In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward`s VIII`s abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorce Wallis Simpson. But Wally`s research, including several visits to the Sotheby`s auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple`s life together was not as perfect as she thought. Weaving back and forth in time, W.E. intertwines Wally`s journey of discovery in New York with the story of Wallis (Andrea Riseborough) and Edward (James D`Arcy), from the glamorous early days of their romance to the slow unraveling of their lives in the decades that followed.