The legacy of Queen Elizabeth II will not only live in history books, but in the many films and television series that have been inspired by her life story.

Sally Bedell Smith’s “George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy” explores a wholly different epoch in the Windsor saga.

King George II of Greece with his wife Elisabeth, daughter of the King of Romania. The pair's union was an ill-judged move that ended in divorce in 1935 In Athens in 1947, George suffered a heart ...