Talk:King George VI Wembley Speech (1925)/@comment-357266-20140616072646/@comment-76.27.144.252-20141215190423

In light of recent public interest due to the film, and of course because of the historical relevance, the royal family have openly encouraged efforts to track down the lost audio. (Granted, for the same reasons you state, they could always be going through the motions.) But at this point, the general consensus is that

a) the royal family or the press DID have the tapes destroyed at the time in order to avoid the embarassment, and everyone involved has since forgotten it happened, or

b) the recordings were so old that they degraded to the point they could not be salvaged and were long ago disposed of in spite of their importance. Sadly, B seems to be the most likely outcome.