In 2010, Colin Firth starred as King George VI in "The King's Speech ... She played Anne Boleyn, in the 2003 television movie, "Henry VIII." She also played Colin Firth's wife, Queen Elizabeth ...

In PEOPLE's exclusive excerpt from royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith's new book, George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy, the last crowning of a king is revisited Simon ...