TY  - BOOK
AU  - Logue,Mark
AU  - Conradi,Peter
TI  - The King's speech: how one man saved the British monarchy 
SN  - 9780857381101 (pbk.)
U1  - 941.0840922 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Quercus
KW  - George
KW  - Logue, Lionel,
KW  - Speech therapy
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - George VI, 1936-1952
N2  - The subject of a major motion picture starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century. Amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'.  Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue-tied, Duke of York into the man who was capable of becoming King.  Had Logue not saved Bertie from his debilitating stammer, and pathological nervousness in front of a crowd or microphone, then it is almost certain that the House of Windsor would have collapsed. The King's Speech is the previously untold story of the extraordinary relationship between Logue and the haunted young man who became King George VI
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