When he left you could see that there was more hope in his heart

By the time he married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923, the Duke of York had visited many doctors to no avail. But the new duchess was determined to see him conquer the affliction, especially after Bertie's excruciating closing speech at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in October 1925 proved such an ordeal for him and the nation. How would he be able to deliver the speech at the opening of Australia's new Parliament in Canberra in 19? Help was at hand. In 1924 Logue, his wife and their two children had moved to London. Logue did not have a single patient yet he opened a practice in Harley Street - the world's most expensive medical address - specialising in voice production and remedial speech training. A close friend, John Gordon, claimed in a article for the Sunday Express (headlined ''He Came To London Unknown - And Gave The King The Power To Speak'') to be the only person Logue vaguely knew in London when he arrived. Gordon said the Duke of York had already seen nine speech-defect experts by the time a royal equerry heard about Logue's particular success with stammerers. ''Next day the equerry saw Logue at Harley Street,'' Gordon wrote. ''Logue was asked if he would see the duke and decide whether he could do anything to help him. 'Yes,' replied Logue. 'But he must come to me here. That imposes an effort on him which is essential for success. If I see him at home we lose the value of that.' ''Two days later, on October 19, 1926, the duke went to Harley Street. They talked for an hour and a half. Conversation was very difficult. But at the end, Logue Rosetta Stone Portuguese said, 'I can cure you, but it will need a tremendous effort by you. Without that effort it can't be done.' ''As Logue said later, 'He came into my room a slim, quiet man with tired eyes and all the outward symptoms of a man upon whom a habitual speech defect had begun to set the sign. When he left you could see that there was more hope in his heart.''' Edgar provides the most detailed account of Logue's diagnosis and treatment: ''The therapist diagnosed poor co-ordination between larynx and diaphragm, and asked him to spend an hour each day practising rigorous exercises. The duke stood by an open window and loudly intoned each vowel for 15 seconds. Logue restored his confidence by relaxing the tension which caused muscle spasms. ''The duke's stammer diminished Resonantly and without stuttering, he opened the Australian Parliament in Canberra in 19.'' Gordon's version has the duke and Logue sometimes conducting daily sessions at Logue's South Kensington home. ''A snobbish neighbour one day sent a curt note to Logue directing him to instruct his visitor not to park his car outside the neighbour's house. ''When Logue replied politely that he would tell the Duke of York that he must put his car elsewhere, the neighbour almost collapsed.'' A decade later, the duke's public speaking ability faced its harshest test in the abdication crisis, when Edward renounced the throne to marry the twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. The duke's speeches were usually carefully composed to avoid problem words and phrases, but the coronation speech of 19 could not be tampered with. And, thanks to radio, it would have a global audience. Mark Logue says his grandfather was called in for emergency consultations, also encouraging the reluctant king-to-be to take secret singing lessons with another of his patients, the West End musical star Evelyn ''Boo'' Laye, to improve his breathing.

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