85-yr-old letter reveals the man who cured King George’s stammer
March 2nd, 2011 - 2:57 pm ICT by ANILondon, Mar 2 (ANI): A letter, almost 85 years old, has revealed how King George VI came to meet the man who cured his stammer.
The monarch was treated by unconventional speech therapist Lionel Logue. Now it has emerged that Logue’s address was passed to the Palace by John Murray V, of the publishing dynasty.
Murray told his friend Lord Stamfordham - King George V’s private secretary - how his nephew had been successfully treated for a stammer by Logue.
The letter was found in the John Murray archives at the National Library of Scotland, in Edinburgh.
The letter, dated May 18 1925, shows he thanks Murray for Logue’s address “which I will pass on to the Duke of York’s people”.
The Duke of York became King after his brother Edward VIII abdicated.
“There has always been a lot of speculation about how the introduction between King George VI and Lionel Logue came about, even more so following the success of the film The King’s Speech,” the Daily Express quoted David McClay, senior curator, as saying. (ANI)
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