Spoils The King's Speech (6)
I believe the answer is:
wrecks
'spoils' is the definition.
'king's speech' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'king's' could be 'ks' (abbreviation for king in chess) and 'ks' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for wrecks that I've seen before include "Ships on sea bed" , "Ships destroyed at sea" , "ruins" , "Ships at bottom of ocean" , "Ships at bottom of sea" .)