The King's Speech

ignatius
Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:44:13 +0000

Newsweek had an article about David Seidler, who wrote the script for The King’s Speech. Two points of interest, Seidler himself stuttered, and he had an uncle treated by Logue for four years.

From Newsweek



Through a friend in London, he located Logue’s surviving son, Valentine, who offered to give him access to his father’s notebooks on one condition: that he get the approval of Bertie’s widow, the Queen Mother. She refused. The story, she said, was still too painful, and she asked that he refrain from telling it until after her death. Seidler, being a loyal British subject, agreed. As the Queen Mum was already in her 70s, he figured he wouldn’t have that long to wait. She lived another 28 years.



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