King George VI...fuckity, shit, shit, fuck and willy. Willy, shit and fuck and... tits.
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King George VIIn this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you, as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself: For the second time in the lives of most of us, we are at... 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 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, 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 cause to God. If one and all we keep resolutely faithful to it, then, with God's help, we shall prevail.
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King George VI[Sees Logue is sitting on the coronation throne]What are you doing? Get up! You can't sit there! GET UP!
King George VIYou know, ih... if I'm a... a King, where's my power? Can I... can I form a government? Can I... can I l-levy a tax, declare a... a war? No! And yet I am the seat of all authority. Why? Because... the nation believes that when I s... I speak, I speak for them - but I can't speak.
King George VIEvery monarch in history has succeeded someone who is dead, or just about to be. My predecessor's not only alive, but very much so. Bloody mess. Can't even give them a Christmas speech.
King George VIYes he is: he's on that shilling I gave you.
Lionel LogueEasy enough to give away. You don't have to carry him around in your pocket. Or your brother. You don't need to be afraid of the things you were afraid of when you were five.
King George VIn the past, all a King had to do was look respectable in uniform and not fall off his horse. Now we must invade people's homes and ingratiate ourselves with them. This family's been reduced to those lowest, basest of all creatures. We've become actors!
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King George VIWaiting for a king to apologize, one can wait a rather long wait.
Lionel LogueIsn't that what public speaking's all about?
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Lionel LogueWell, we need to have your hubby pop by. Uh, Tuesday would be good. He can give me his personal details, I'll make a frank appraisal, and then we'll take it from there.
Queen ElizabethDoctor, forgive me, ah... I don't have a "hubby," we don't "pop," and nor do we ever talk about our private lives. No, you must come to us.
Lionel LogueI'm sorry, Mrs. Johnson - my game, my turf, my rules.
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King George VIIs the nation ready for two... minutes of radio silence?
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King George VIIn this... grave... hour - fuck fuck fuck - perhaps the most fateful in our history - bugger shit shit.
Lionel Logue[referring to the Duke of York]This fellow could really be somebody great. He's fighting me.
Myrtle LoguePerhaps he doesn't want to be great. Perhaps that's what you want.
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Queen Elizabeth[to Winston Churchill, on the hold that Wallis Simpson seems to have on Edward VIII]Apparently she has certain skills - acquired in an establishment in Shanghai.
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Stanley BaldwinSir, I have asked to see you today in order to tender my resignation as Prime Minister.
Stanley BaldwinNeville Chamberlain will take my place as Prime Minister. It's a matter of principle. I was mistaken. I have found it impossible to believe that there is any man in the world so lacking in moral feeling as Hitler that the world may be hurled for a second time into the abyss of destructive war.
King George V[hearing the voice of his father]Churchill was right all along. This was always Hitler's intention.
Stanley BaldwinI'm only very sorry to leave you at this great time of crisis. I'm very much afraid, sir, that your greatest test is yet to come.
Title Card1925 / King George V reigns over a quarter of the world's people. He asks his second son, the Duke of York, to give the closing speech at the Empire Exhibition in Wembley, London.
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Lionel LogueLong pauses are good. They add solemnity to great occasions.
King George VIThen I am the solemnest king who ever lived.
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Lionel LogueKiss the book, sign the oath, and you're king. Easy.
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Queen ElizabethMy husband has this... mechanical difficulty.
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King George VIYou wouldn't believe the kind of people I have breathing down my neck.
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Robert WoodLet the microphone do the work, sir.
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Title CardKing George VI made Lionel Logue a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1944.
Title CardThis high honour from a grateful King made Lionel part of the only order of chivalry that specifically rewards acts of personal service to the Monarch.
Title CardLionel was with the King for every wartime speech. Through his broadcasts, George VI became a symbol of national resistance.
Title CardLionel and Bertie remained friends for the rest of their lives.
