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Mar 31, 2019 · In the new three part mini-series Mrs Wilson, which premieres this weekend on Masterpiece PBS, actress Ruth Wilson plays a woman who upon her husband Alexander "Alec" Wilson's death discovers...
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Mrs. Wilson is based on the true story of actress Ruth Wilson’s grandmother, Alison, who discovered, upon the sudden death of her husband Alec, that he had another, secret family. But the ...
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Sep 6, 2019 · Actress Ruth Wilson is the granddaughter of the real Alison Wilson, the very woman she portrays on screen. To celebrate the rebroadcasting of Mrs. Wilson, the WGBH Drama Club presents the true story behind one of our new favorite Masterpiece programs. The Truth – According to Alison
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Ruth Wilson and writer Anna Symon tell us more about the real Alison Wilson and her complicated story. Mrs. Wilson premieres Sunday, March 31 at 9/8c.
- Who Was The Real Alexander Wilson?
- Who Were Alexander Wilson's Wives?
- Was Alexander Wilson A Spy Or A Fraud?
- How Did Alison Find Out About The Other Wives?
- How Did Gordon and Nigel Find Out The Truth About Their Dad?
- How Was The Truth About Alexander Wilson Uncovered?
- What Do The Real-Life Wilsons Think of This Drama?
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...
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Nov 13, 2018 · Who was Alison Wilson? Award-winning actress Ruth Wilson leads an all-British cast in Mrs Wilson, a new original three-part drama for BBC One, co-produced with Masterpiece, based on the life...
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Who Was Alison Wilson? Clip: Season 2019 | 1m | Video has closed captioning. Ruth Wilson and writer Anna Symon tell us more about the real Alison Wilson and her complicated story.
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