The King's Speech · written by David Seidler · 2010

Alone, Bertie hears his recorded Shakespeare reading and discovers that he spoke fluently while unable to hear himself.

Scene 29 of 100 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Bertie
Bertie’S Recorded Voice

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Begins 28 min into a 1:31 film

The story so farBefore scene 29

Prince Albert seeks to overcome a lifelong stammer so he can serve his country, but his fear of public failure and the royal hierarchy obstruct his work with an unconventional speech therapist.

Scenes 1–11
Bertie lives within royal ceremony but cannot speak publicly and remains constrained by family roles.
Scenes 12–24
Elizabeth seeks a different treatment because Bertie must speak and conventional medicine has failed.
Scene 25
Logue insists that equality and trust matter, and that Bertie’s voice can do more than he believes.
Just before
Scene 26
Bertie refuses further treatment and leaves with Elizabeth.
Scene 27
Snow surrounds Sandringham as King George V gives his Christmas broadcast.
Scene 28
George V warns Bertie that radio has changed the monarchy and that David may force Bertie to take on more public duties.
Scene 29
This scene

29INT. BERTIE’S STUDY, YORK HOUSE - NEW NIGHT

Bertie lies on a chaise longue, smoking.

BERTIE

(to himself)

Lying bastard.

Bertie gets up and retrieves the recording he made with Lionel. He walks to a Victoria stand, lifts the arm, places the steel needle. It slips and slides across the records surface, as steel needles do. But what he hears is poetic and flowing:

BERTIE’S RECORDED VOICE

“To be, or not to be, - that is the

question: -

Elizabeth enters, unseen by Bertie and listens.

BERTIE’S RECORDED VOICE (CONT’D)

“...whether tis nobler in the mind

to suffer The slings and arrows of

outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of

troubles, And by opposing end

them..”

Hold on Elizabeth, stunned: Unable to hear himself, her husband speaks perfectly for the very first time.