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

A montage shows families, workers, soldiers, officials, and David listening as the broadcast calls the nation to stand firm.

Scene 94 of 100 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three

Bertie

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Begins 1:26 into a 1:31 film

The story so farBefore scene 94

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.
Scenes 31–58
He tests the exercises in public and private while family history and David’s crisis expose the cost of silence.
Scenes 59–64
David abdicates and Bertie receives the throne he never wanted.
Scenes 65–67
The accession speech fails, and Bertie feels the loss of private family closeness and confidence.
Scenes 68–78
Bertie returns to Logue, repairs their friendship, and claims the right to speak as a man and king.
Just before
Scene 91
BBC technicians listen anxiously as the opening seconds pass in silence.
Scene 92
With Lionel’s calm support, Bertie begins the wartime address in a measured voice.
Scene 93
Elizabeth and the palace listeners hear Bertie settle into the speech.
Scene 94
This scene

94INT./EXT. MONTAGE OF VARIOUS LOCATIONS

The assembled dignitaries at Buckingham Palace, Myrtle with two of the boys, people listening to radios in homes, pubs, factories. A group of soldiers, including Antony Logue. Queen Mary sitting in her State Apartments, David and Wallis listening dolefully in a villa in the South of France, the crowds assembled outside Buckingham Palace, listening on loud speakers. Cutting continually back to Bertie as he grows in confidence

BERTIE (V.O. ON RADIO)

For the second time in the lives of

most of us we are at war.

Over and over again we have tried

to find a peaceful way out of the

differences between ourselves and

those who are now our enemies. But

it has been in vain. We have been

forced into a conflict. For we are

called, with our allies, to meet

the challenge of a principle which,

if it were to prevail, would be

fatal to any civilized order in the

world. Such a principle, stripped

of all disguise, is surely the mere

primitive doctrine that might is

right. For the sake of all that we

ourselves hold dear, and of the

world’s order and peace, it is

unthinkable that we should refuse

to meet the challenge. It is to

this high purpose that I now call

my people at home and my peoples

across the seas, who will make our

cause their own. I ask them to

stand calm and firm, and united in

this time of trial. The task will

be hard. There may be dark days

ahead, and war can no longer be

confined to the battlefield. But we

can only do the right as we see the

right and reverently commit our