The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue Book

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 whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously 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 (as the man who was to become King George VI was always known) 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of the extraordinary relationship between Logue and the haunted young man who became King George VI drawn from Logue's unpublished personal diaries.They throw extraordinary light on the intimacy of the two men - and the vital role the King's wife the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother played in bringing them together to save her husband's reputation and his career as King. The King's Speech is an intimate portrait of the British monarchy at a time of its greatest crisis seen through the eyes of an Australian commoner who was proud to serve and save his King.

Tasked with single-handedly turning the famously nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York from his debilitating stammer, an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue saved the House of Windsor from certain collapse in the early part of the 20th century.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of the extraordinary relationship between Logue and the haunted young man who became King George VI, drawn from Logue's unpublished personal diaries. They throw extraordinary light on the intimacy of the two men - and the vital role the King's wife, the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, played in bringing them together to save her husband's reputation and his career as King.Adapted into the Oscar-winning film of the same name - starring Academy Award winner Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall and Michael Gambon - The King's Speech is an intimate portrait of the British monarchy at a time of its greatest crisis, seen through the eyes of an Australian commoner who was proud to serve, and save, his King.

The King's Speech : Paperback : Quercus Publishing : 9780857381118 : : 26 May 2011 : How an Australian commoner saved the British monarchy.