From 'The King's Speech,' the Book

[cruisedirector]

From The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy (also available for Kindle), notes from Lionel Logue's diaries and commentary by his grandson on his relationship with the King.

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[gokuma]

The book of prompts! ^^

[cruisedirector]

LOL! I can't tell you how much I loved this book. :)

[gokuma]

I'm not surprised, it must be a real treat for King's Speech fans. I'm sad that it hasn't been translated into my language (I hope it will).
But seriously, almost every line you quoted is like a prompt for a new fic:

The first time Lionel met the Duke of York, he wrote that he was "well built, with good shoulders" - you must be someone really... unique to pay attention to something like this, seeing a prince for a first time XD

"Bertie wanted to take Lionel on his trip to Australia, but Lionel declined, saying that self-reliance was part of the cure." - yey, two separate prompts in one sentence

[cruisedirector]

I'm 3/4 of the way through "telephone as a prompt. I had to stop and find out how people in the UK answered in the 1930s and 40s when having a phone in one's own home was a novelty.

[miss_morland]

Thanks so much for this write-up! This book sounds amazing -- what a gift for us slashers. *g*

Bertie invited Lionel to the Palace less than 24 hours after he got off the ship home.

*dies with glee*

[cruisedirector]

The whole book is one long SQUEEEEEE! Lionel is pretty formal in how he talks about Bertie in all these papers he knew would be read after his death, and you still learn that they talked practically every day for years and visited each other all the time even after Bertie became king. The biggest thing that ever came between them seems to have been their health.