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The King's Speech - How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
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One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed `The Quack who saved a King.' He was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of Britain's greatest kings after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 over his love of Mrs. Simpson...
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Second hand Paperback
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9780857381101
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41462