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

In the wine cellar, Bertie presses David to attend to royal duties instead of Wallis’s wishes.

Scene 48 of 100 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Bertie
David

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Begins 50 min into a 1:31 film

The story so farBefore scene 48

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 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
Bertie confronts David about neglecting the Crown while the country faces a growing threat from Hitler.
Scene 48
This scene

48INT. SERVANT’S CORRIDOR/WINE CELLAR - DAY

David is hunting for a bottle of champagne for Wallis in the wine cellar.

BERTIE

And you’ve put that woman into our

mother’s suite?

DAVID

Mother’s not still in the bed, is

she?

BERTIE

That’s not funny.

David finds the bottle he was looking for.

DAVID

Wally likes the very best.

BERTIE

I don’t care what woman you carry

on with at night, as long as you

show up for duty in the morning!

He exits. Bertie follows.