No complicated plots here. The King's Speech is a movie about the stuttering King of England making his first war time speech to all his peoples.The movie starts with the Duke of York (who shares my name and it is not Colin) delivering the closing speech of the Empire Exhibition at the old Wembley Stadium. He was tense, he was nervous, and he stuttered a lot. That didn't go down well. His gracious wife Elizabeth sought help from many speech therapists to no avail.
Then they met Lionel Logue, who hails from Australia. Part speech therapist, part psychiatrist, he tries to understand why Bertie got his stutter in the first place. Slowly but surely, he guides and encourages Bertie to control his speech.
King George V later dies, and after six months, King Edward the VIII abdicates the throne to marry some American socialite, so now Bertie is pronounced King, much to his dismay. Worse, England joins the war against Hitler, and he has to make a 9-minute speech over radio. Lionel rushes to the palace to give him some last-minute speech lessons. During the speech, it's just the two of them in the room, and the King delivered.
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