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

Bertie confronts David about neglecting the Crown while the country faces a growing threat from Hitler.

Scene 47 of 100 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Bertie
David

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 50 min into a 1:31 film

The story so farBefore scene 47

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.
Scene 41
Bertie begins trusting Logue with the family history and humiliations beneath his speech difficulty.
Just before
Scene 44
On the drive to Balmoral, Bertie and Elizabeth see ancient trees being cut to improve the estate view.
Scene 45
At David’s party, Wallis needles Elizabeth and draws David away from Bertie.
Scene 46
Churchill reassures Elizabeth that she behaved correctly and questions Wallis’s influence over David.
Scene 47
This scene

47INT. CORRIDOR, BALMORAL - CONTINUOUS

Bertie catches his brother.

BERTIE

I’ve been trying to see you...

DAVID

I’ve been terribly busy.

BERTIE

Doing what?

DAVID

Kinging.

BERTIE

Really? Kinging? Kinging is a

precarious business! Where is the

Tsar of Russia? Where is Cousin

Wilhelm?

DAVID

You’re being dreary.

BERTIE

Is Kinging laying off eighty staff

at Sandringham and buying yet more

pearls for Wallis while there are

people marching across Europe

singing “The Red Flag”?

DAVID

Stop your worrying. Herr Hitler

will sort that lot out.

BERTIE

Who’ll sort out Herr Hitler?

David hurries down some stairs.