“It was partly inspired, Mr. Thompson recalled, by memories of his mother berating his father, Angelo, for his reluctance to fetch her a coke. ‘Edward gave up the throne of England for the one he loved,’ he recalled her saying. ‘You’d think that you could get me a Coca-Cola.’”
From Michael Cieply’s May 17, 2012 New York Times article on producer Larry Thompson’s planned “Liz and Dick” biopic (recalling the genesis of Mr. Thompson’s “first notable biopic, ‘The Woman He Loved,’” about Wallis Simpson).