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

Bertie finds David speaking intimately with Wallis on the telephone.

Scene 35 of 100 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

David
Bertie

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Begins 36 min into a 1:31 film

The story so farBefore scene 35

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.
Scenes 25–30
Bertie enters Logue’s unfamiliar, egalitarian practice and finally commits to its daily work.
Just before
Scene 32
Bertie waits at Sandringham as David arrives and tells him their father is dying.
Scene 33
David drives Bertie to the King’s bedside, dismissing the seriousness of their father’s illness.
Scene 34
George V, frail and confused, signs the papers that let his council act for him.
Scene 35
This scene

35INT. LIBRARY, SANDRINGHAM - CONTINUOUS

David is on the phone. Bertie enters.

DAVID

I’m on with Wallis!

(continues as though Bertie didn’t exist)

I know, darling, a talk, even a

lovely long talk, is a poor

substitute for holding tight and

making drowsy. Nor making our own

drowsies either, as we’ve had to do

far too often lately.

(kisses the phone and hangs up)

Wallis misses me terribly.

BERTIE

Mother says you’re late for dinner.

David glares at a clock.

DAVID

She forgets Papa’s bloody clocks

were always half an hour fast!

He sets it back.