The King's speech how one man saved the British monarchy / Mark Logue and Peter Conradi.
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TextPublication details: London : Quercus, 2010Description: xiv, 242 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports., facsims. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780857381101 (pbk.); 0857381105 (pbk.)Subject(s): George VI King of Great Britain, 1895-1952 | Logue, Lionel, 1880-1953 | Speech therapy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Kings and rulers | Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952DDC classification: 941.0840922 Summary: 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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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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