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Mar 31, 2019 · Ruth Wilson, the star of the PBS's new drama Mrs Wilson, is playing her own grandmother onscreen in the new series. Here's the true story behind the miniseries.
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- Who Was The Real Alexander Wilson?
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- Was Alexander Wilson A Spy Or A Fraud?
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Although some of the facts around Alexander Wilson are a bit murky thanks to MI6's classified files and Alec's own habit of telling lies and keeping secrets, we do know that Ruth Wilson's grandfather was born in 1893 and died in 1963. He was a novelist, a spy and an MI6 agent, and – most dramatically – he was a serial bigamist with four wives. So w...
Over the course of his life, Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson married four women and fathered seven children between them. He never divorced any of his wives, instead keeping the women ignorant of each other's existence as he juggled his many separate lives and parallel families. Alec married his first (and only legal) wife Gladys in 1916, and she s...
Thanks to the nature of Alexander's life and career, it is particularly difficult to tell for sure what is fact and what is fiction. The big question is whether he was – or wasn't – fired from the secret service for good after 'The Affair of the Egyptian Ambassador' in 1942-43. As biographer Tim Crook writes, the files show that his career in Secti...
According to Ruth, Alison was sorting out her husband's papers after his death when she discovered he was already married – to Gladys. She rang Gladys to inform her of Alec's death, and the two of them came to an arrangement between them about the funeral. Not wishing to upset her sons Gordon (21) and Nigel (18) by dropping this bombshell about the...
Alison Wilson outlived her husband by several decades and wrote a memoir in two parts, which she gave to her children Gordon and Nigel. One part was to be read in her lifetime, and one to be read after her death – which came in 2005. She writes of the realisation that her husband was "one vast lie. He had not only died, he had evaporated into nothi...
Had she lived just a little longer, Alison would have been incredibly shocked to find out about Alec's further two wives, Dorothy and Elizabeth, as the full story started to emerge. "Thank god she didn't know about those two," Ruth said. In 2005, Alec's fourth son Michael, who had changed his name to Mike Shannon, wanted to know more about the fath...
"It was a scary process, being so vulnerable and exposing the family in that way," Ruth Wilson admitted. "It's something that we have talked about a lot and tried to be very sensitive towards." In recent years, the many descendants of Alexander Wilson have been getting to know each other as family. Second son Dennis hosted a party for 28 members of...
Ruth Wilson stars as her grandmother Alison, who discovered her husband Alec was a spy and a bigamist with four wives. The drama explores the true story of betrayal, espionage and mystery behind the Wilson family.
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Ruth Wilson stars as Alison Wilson, who uncovers her husband's secret life as an MI6 agent and a double agent after his death. Watch the trailer and learn more about the true story behind this MASTERPIECE on PBS miniseries.
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Mrs Wilson (formerly known as The Wilsons) is a 2018 British historical drama serial, executive-produced by and starring Ruth Wilson. The actress plays her real-life grandmother, a widow who uncovers a mysterious and secret life following the death of her husband.
No.TitleOriginal Air DateU.k. Viewers (millions)1"Episode 1"27 November 2018 ( 2018-11-27)9.41 [9]2"Episode 2"4 December 2018 ( 2018-12-04)8.91 [9]3"Episode 3"11 December 2018 ( 2018-12-11)8.75 [9]Dec 12, 2018 · BBC One's Mrs Wilson - in which the actress Ruth Wilson plays her own grandmother - has shone an unforgiving light on the author, spy and bigamist Alexander Wilson. But not one living soul...
Apr 1, 2019 · Ruth Wilson stars as her grandmother Alison, who uncovers her grandfather's bigamy and lies in the Masterpiece suspense series. Based on a true story, the show explores the shocking revelations and the emotional truth behind the family's scandalous secret.
Dec 12, 2018 · Ruth Wilson stars as her grandmother Alison, who discovered her husband Alexander Wilson had three other wives and seven children after his death. The drama explores the mystery of his secret life and his possible involvement with MI6.
