Introduction

It is the 26th of February 2011 evening.The auditorium of Headquarter Center is full.Actors

and actresses,directors and script writers,musicians and film technicians all are taken photos
by journalists,reporters,paparazzi.Smart dresses and suits,expensive jewels ans strange head
dresses everthing is dumbfounded.The great moment is coming.The 83rd Academy Awards
are going to be conferred: best picture,best actor,best actress,best director,best song best
editing,best visual effects,best documentary,best costume design,best makeup,best sound
editing,best original score,best foreign language film,best original screenplay,best animated
film ,best animatography.To be awarded an Oscar is great,it does not matter what category it
represents.Great films are presented in the 83rd Academy Awards: 127 Hours,Black
Swan,The Fighter,Inception,The Kids Are All Right,The Social Network,Toy Story 3. But the
greatest film ,which won four Oscars from its 12 nominations,was The Kings Speech.It
was awarded with Best Picture ,Best Actor(Colin Firth),Best Director(Tom Hooper) and
Original Screenplay (David Seidler).

Chapter1-The Kings Speech- The movie

The Kings Speech is a British film of the 2010 hostorical drama directed by Tom Hooper
from a screenplay by David Seidler.Colin Firth plays king George VI.
to get rid of stammering,hires Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) an australian specialist in
speech.
The two men become good friends as they work together and after his brother Edward VIII
abdicates , the new king relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast
on Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939 at the beginning of the World War II.
It premiered on January 6 , 2010 at the Telluride Film Festival and on January 7 , 2011 in the
U.K.
The Kings Speech is the story of a man who must face the stammering .It is harder when
you have to do this in front of a microphone listened to and by the whole Kingdom of Great
Britain.
Seidler read about George VI's life . He started writing about the relationship between the
monarch and his therapist as early as the 1980s. Nine weeks before filming began, Logue's
notebooks were discovered and quotations from them were incorporated into the script.
Principal photography took place in London and around Britain from November 2009 to
January 2010.

Chapter 2-George VI of the United Kingdom

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor) ( 14 December 1895 - 6
February 1952) became the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland and Emperor of India, upon the unexpected abdication of his brother, Edward VIII. .

He reigned from 11 December 1936 until his death. As well as being King of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British dominions beyond the seas,
George VI was the last Emperor of India (until 1947) and the last King of Ireland

Chapter 3-Birth and family

George VI was born on 14 December 1895 at York Cottage, on the Sandringham
Estate, Norfolk.
His father was Prince George, Duke of York (later King George V . His mother was the
Duchess of York (later Queen Mary)
He was baptised at St Mary Magdalene's Church near Sandringham three months later
As the second son of his parents, he was thus fourth in line for the throne at birth. The
Duchess of York had given birth to her eldest son Edward, who was third in line to the throne
on 23 June 1894
George VI himself was the second son of his parents; and his own elder brother became king
asEdward VIII, upon the death of their father George V. However, Edward VIII chose to
abdicate his crown to marry a divorce; it was by reason of this unforeseeable abdication,
unique in British history, that George VI came to the throne.

Chapter 4-Early life

He often suffered from ill health and was described as "easily frightened and somewhat prone
to tears". His parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, were generally removed from their
children's upbringing, as was the norm in royal families of that era. Unfortunately this
allowed the Royal nanny to have a dominating role in their young lives. The nanny doted
over Albert's brother, Prince Edward, while neglecting Albert. Albert developed a
severe stammer that lasted for many years as well as chronic stomach problems. He also
suffered from knock knees, and to correct this he had to wear splints, which were extremely
painful. He was also forced to write with his right hand although he was a natural left-hander.
Growing up, he was completely outshone by his elder brother, whose dominance was one of
the most important influences on his early life. . Prince Edward had, according to almost
everyone who ever knew him, an extraordinary and magnetic charm. No one felt his charms
more strongly than the younger members of his family. In the isolation of their lives, he was
the most attractive person they ever knew. In childhood they followed his leadership, while
as young men they ardently admired him.

Chapter 5-Military career and education

From 1909 Albert attended the Royal Naval College, Osborne as a naval cadet. Despite
coming bottom of the class in the final examination, Albert progressed to the Royal Naval
College, Dartmouth in 1911. When Edward VII died on 6 May 1910 Albert's father became

King George V. Prince Edward was created Prince of Wales on 2 June 1910 and Albert was
now second in line to the throne.
Albert was commissioned as a midshipman on 15 September 1913, one year later he was
serving in World War I ( 1914 1918). He saw action aboard HMS Collingwood in the Battle
of Jutland ( 31 May 1 June 1916). The battle was a tactical victory for the German Empire
but a strategic victory for the United Kingdom. In 1918 Albert transferred to the newlycreated Royal Air Force but did not see any further action in the war, largely through ill
health caused by a duodenal ulcer. After the war, Albert studied history, economics and civics
for a year at Trinity College, Cambridge, from October 1919.
In 1920 Prince Albert was created Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killarney. He
then began to take on royal duties, representing his father, King George V. Upon taking the
throne, he became an Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy

Chapter 6 Marriage
It was unusual, in a time when royals were expected to marry fellow royals, that Albert had a
great deal of freedom in choosing a prospective wife. In 1920 he met Lady Elizabeth BowesLyon, the youngest daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon and set his sights on marrying her. She
rejected his proposal twice and hesitated for nearly two years reportedly because she was
reluctant to make the sacrifices necessary to become a member of the royal family. In the
words of the Countess of Strathmore, Albert would be "made or marred" by his choice of
wife and after a protracted courtship Elizabeth agreed to marry him. However, in an
interview just before her marriage Lady Elizabeth denied having turned down Albert: "Do
you think I am the sort of person Bertie would have to ask twice?" They were married on 26
April 1923 in Westminster Abbey. The newly-formed BBC wished to record and broadcast
the event on radio, but the Chapter forbidden the idea. Lady Elizabeth was styled Her Royal
Highness The Duchess of York after their marriage. At that time, Albert's marriage to a
British commoner was considered a modernising gesture.
The Duke and Duchess of York had two children:
Elizabeth II (born 21 April 1926)
Princess Margaret ( 21 August 1930 9 February 2002).

Chapter 7-Reluctant king

On January 20, 1936, King George V died and Prince Edward ascended the throne as Edward
VIII. As he had no children, Albert was now the heir presumptive to the throne until the
unmarried Edward VIII had any legitimate children, or died. George V had had severe
reservations about Edward, saying, "I pray God that my eldest son will never marry and that
nothing will come between Bertie and Lilibet and the throne." Less than a year later
on December 11, 1936, Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry his love, Wallis

Warfield Simpson. Thus Prince Albert, Duke of York, was now king, a position he was
reluctant to accept. The day before the abdication, he went to London to see his
mother, Queen Mary. He wrote in his diary, "When I told her what had happened, I broke
down and sobbed like a child."
Albert assumed the style and title King George VI to emphasise continuity with his father
and restore confidence in the monarchy. His first act was to confer upon his brother the title
HRH The Duke of Windsor. Three days after his accession, on his forty-first birthday, he
invested the Queen with the Order of the Garter

Chapter 8-Reign
George VI's coronation took place on 12 May 1937the intended date of Edward's
coronation. In a break with tradition, Queen Mary attended the coronation as a show of
support for her son.
The growing likelihood of war erupting in Europe would dominate the reign of King George
VI.
In 1939, the King and Queen undertook an extensive tour of Canada ,from which they made
a shorter visit to the United States of America. George was the first reigning monarch to visit
either of these countries. The royal couple were accompanied throughout the trip to the
United States by Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, and not a British
minister, meaning they were present as King and Queen of Canada. They were also warmly
received by the American people, visiting the 1939 New York World's Fair and staying at
the White House with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and at his private estate at Hyde Park,
New York.
When war broke out in 1939, George VI and his wife resolved to stay in London and not flee
to Canada, as had been suggested. The King and Queen officially stayed in Buckingham
Palace throughout the war, although they often escaped to Windsor Castle to avoid bombing
raids. George VI and Queen Elizabeth narrowly avoided death when two German bombs
exploded in a courtyard at Buckingham Palace.

Chapter 9-Illness and death

The war had taken its toll on the King's health. This was exacerbated by his heavy smoking
and subsequent development of lung cancer. Increasingly his daughter Princess Elizabeth, the
heiress presumptive to the throne, would take on more of the royal duties as her father's
health deteriorated. In the autumn of 1951 a cancerous lung was removed.
On 6 February 1952, George VI died in his sleep at Sandringham House in Norfolk, at the
age of 56. He was the only British monarch of modern times whose death was not observed
and whose precise moment of death was not recorded. His funeral took place on February 15,
and he was buried in St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. In 2002, the body of his wife
Elizabeth and the ashes of his daughter Princess Margaret were interred in a tomb alongside
him.