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English
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The true story behind the award-winning movie of the same name, The King's Speech is written by London Sunday Times journalist Peter Conradi and Mark Logue—grandson of Lionel Logue, whose recently discovered diaries and correspondence contain fascinating details about these events.
It's the eve of World War II, and King Edward VIII has abdicated the throne of England to marry the woman he loves. Never has the nation needed
...11) Coronation
Author
Pub. Date
1953.
Physical Description
vii, 88 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Description
xxii, 406 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitler--and each other. At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI, surrounded by a gaggle of courtiers and politicians who barely thought him up to the job. Meanwhile, as the...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The broadcast that George VI made to the British nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939--which formed the climax of the multi-Oscar-winning film The King's Speech--was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic, Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. Far from it: in the years that followed, Logue was to play an even more important role at the monarch's side....
Series
L'Illustration volume 95e année, no. 4916 (22 mai, 1937)
Pub. Date
1937.
Physical Description
xxx pages, [81]-126, xxxi-xlvi pages : illustrations (some color) ; 38 cm
Language
Français
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