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Queen Elizabeth II was King George VI's (the king in this film) daughter. As he had no sons and as England supported a system of male-preference primogeniture (wherein living sons of the monarch, then living children of dead sons of the monarch are higher in succession than the monarch's daughters) at the time, Elizabeth was able to succeed him. George VI had some trauma-induced speech difficulties, hence the few instances of characters feigning a stutter throughout the early part of the film here. It was apparently commonplace behind closed doors. There was a film made called "The King's Speech" starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush about George VI, his succession of his brother, King Edward VIII, after Edward's abdication in the interests of his marriage to American divorcee Wallace Simpson (a great scandal at the time), and his battle with his speech issues.
TheToweringOtakunt
2023-10-31 13:02:45 +0000 UTC
