Moira Hodgson’s review of the books “George VI and Elizabeth” by Sally Bedell Smith and “The Windsors at War” by Alexander Larman (Books, May 6) puts forth that Brtain’s King George VI had a ...

DULUTH — In the opening scene of "The King's Speech," Prince Albert of Britain is supposed to give the closing address at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley on Oct. 31, 1925. The audience looks ...

Television journalist John Stossel finds Colin Firth's sometimes agonized portrayal of a stutter-afflicted King George VI in The King's Speech a bit too good. "It brought me back to my uncomfortable ...

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David Seidler, who drew on his boyhood struggle overcoming a stutter to write the Oscar-winning screenplay for “The King’s Speech,” the Oscar-winning 2010 drama about King George VI’s effort to subdue ...