MADONNA IS WRITING TO QUEEN ELIZABETH II TO ASK FOR ASSISTANCE WITH A FILM THAT SHE IS MAKING ABOUT WALLIS SIMPSON. THE 51 YEAR OLD AMERICAN SINGER IS ABOUT TO WRITE TO THE QUEEN TO ASK ASSISTANCE WITH 'W.E.', A FILM THAT SHE IS MAKING ABOUT THE EDWARD VIII ABDICATION CRISIS. 'MADONNA IS KEEN TO MAKE THE FILM AS AUTHENTIC AS POSSIBLE AND WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL IF WE ARE ALLOWED TO FILM AT CERTAIN LOCATIONS', SAYS ONE OF HER ASSOCIATES. 'SHE LOVES THE UK AND HOLDS THE QUEEN IN THE HIGHEST REGARD.' MADONNA, WHO LIVED IN SIR CECIL BEATON'S FORMER HOUSE IN DORSET DURING HER SEVEN YEAR MARRIAGE TO BRITISH DIRECTOR GUY RITCHIE, PLANS TO START SHOOTING THE FILM LATER THIS SUMMER. THE SINGER HAS LONG BEEN FASCINATED BY THE 1936 CRISIS, IN WHICH EDWARD VIII'S DESIRE TO MARRY WALLIS SIMPSON, A TWICE-DIVORCED AMERICAN SOCIALITE, CAUSED A CONSTITUTIONAL DILEMMA. THE CRISIS WAS RESOLVED BY EDWARD'S ABDICATION AND HIS SUCCESSION TO HIS BROTHER GEORGE VI, WHO WAS THE QUEEN'S FATHER. EDWARD WAS GIVEN THE TITLE OF 'DUKE OF WINDSOR' AND HE MARRIED HIS LOVE WALLIS SIMPSON. THE FILM, FOR WHICH MADONNA WORKED ON THE SCREENPLAY, WILL STAR ABBIE CORNISH, AN AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS, AS A CONTEMPORARY WOMAN OBSESSED BY THE STORY OF WALLIS SIMPSON. A COURTIER WARNS THAT MADONNA SHOULD NOT GET HER HOPES UP AS FILMING IS GENERALLY NOT ALLOWED IN THE ROYAL PALACES. 'I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT HER MAJESTY WOULD MAKE AN EXCEPTION, PARTICULARLY FOR A FILM ABOUT WALLIS SIMPSON', HE SAYS.
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