It is a film that the late Queen Mother wished only to be shown after her death.

The King’s Speech portrays the friendship between King George VI (Queen Elizabeth II’s father) and Lionel Logue a speech therapist whom the Queen Mother sought to help “Bertie” get rid of his stutter.

This film stars Helena Bonham Carter (Queen Mother), Colin Firth (King George VI/“Bertie”) and Geoffrey Rush (Lionel Logue – speech therapist).

The director, Tom Hooper, makes the Royals more “relatable”.

Touted as a contender for an Oscar Best Picture David Seidler, writer, researched the story way back 1981.  “I asked her (Queen Mother) permission to tell the story in a film.  But it was still so raw for her.”  Many indicated that the stress of the war was the cause of King George VI’s early death to both the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth never forgave King Edward VIII who abdicated a year after inheriting the throne to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.

So “deliciously” portrayed also is how King George V (Bertie’s father) and Edward VIII (first son of King George V) treated the ever-shy Bertie.

The movie is due for a US showing on November 26, 2010.

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