The King's Speech

When Queen Elizabeth first engages Logue in his office, her veil is down in every shot but one, when it suddenly appears flipped up.

In the next shot, it is back down.

The Duchess of York's hat at Balmoral, based on the Royal Air force themes, was not her fashion until the war years.

After 'King George VI' (qv) gives his war speech in the studio with Logue present, he puts his military jacket back on, and the jacket collar is folded down in back as it should be.

In the next shot, the collar is flipped up in back as he talks to Logue.

In the shot when he leaves the studio, the jacket collar is back down flat as it should be.

When Bertie meets Prime Minister 'Stanley Baldwin' (qv) to discuss Edward's abdication, close-ups show a speck of cigarette ash on Bertie's lapel.

After a cut-away, the speck has gone.

When the BBC transmitters are shown, all of the meters are indicating zero.

'Colin Firth' (qv)'s kilt is a modern Irish County Kerry one designed in 1997, not the traditional Scottish Balmoral tartan.

The scenes at Balmoral take place in winter.

In reality, King Edward VIII was there in August and September 1936.

He'd abdicated by mid-December.

In the 1930s, Prime Minister 'Stanley Baldwin' (qv) would've been called "Prime Minister Mr.

Baldwin", not "Prime Minister Baldwin", a modern turn of phrase.

At home, in the company of their parents, princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were called Lilibet and Margo, respectively.

Lionel Logue never swore in front of the king, and never called him "Bertie".

In a brief scene at the end of the film, a group of soldiers are listening to the speech as broadcast.

They're wearing the cap badge of The Queen's Regiment, but the badge is the pre-1922 pattern, a paschal lamb with 'The Queen's' scrolled beneath.

That changed in 1922, to a larger paschal lamb with no scroll.

In the conversation with Bertie after delivering the Christmas proclamation, 'King George V' (qv) calls 'Joseph Stalin' (qv) "Marshal Stalin".

Stalin was awarded the title "Marshal of the Soviet Union" in March 1943, after the conclusion of the Battle of Stalingrad, more than 7 years after the George V died.

In the nursery, when Bertie tells the princesses the penguin story, 'Helena Bonham Carter' (qv), sitting in the corner, has something rectangular in her midriff under her dress, either a cell phone or a wireless mike transmitter.

The two princesses do not age, despite the film's story occurring over several years.

'Queen Elizabeth II' (qv) has blue eyes.

'Freya Wilson' (qv), who plays Princess Elizabeth, has brown eyes.

When Bertie is practicing for his broadcast with Lionel, Lionel is visible in the mirror, walking toward Bertie.

In the next shot, Lionel has just stood up.

When the Archbishop is administering last rites to 'King George V' (qv) he is wearing a simple wooden cross.

In the next scene, his cross is much fancier.

Afterward, it switches back to being plain wood.

The Tiger Moth aircraft, although of the period, bears a registration (G-ANFM) which was allocated in 1953.

In the Wembley Stadium scene we see the famous twin towers on the far side of the field.

But they were actually on the same side as the royal box, and in the 1920s there was just open terracing on that far side.

When 'King George VI' (qv) is giving his speech at 6pm, one clock says 7:20pm.

In the movie, there is an air raid alarm in London in September 1939.

There was a false air raid alarm at 11:28 a.

on September 3, 1939, the day war was declared on Germany.

Genuine air raids occurred the next year.

When the Duke of York tells his daughters the penguin story, the view from behind shows each girl with an arm around a dog.

In the next shot, with the girls shown from the front, their arms are down by their sides.

After the abdication of Edward VIII, Bertie says to Logue "every Monarch in history has always succeeded someone who was dead, or just about to be.

" That is not entirely true.

For example, James II had to flee England (a de facto abdication) in 1688.

He lived in exile in France until his death in 1701.

In a brief scene at the end of the film, a small group of factory workers are listening to the speech on the radio.

The speech was broadcast at 6pm on a Sunday, when factories would be likely be closed.

If the factory was operating, workers would be unlikely to stop for a short radio broadcast.

If they did stop, a much bigger crowd of people would be gathered around the radio.

The altar frontal at Westminster Abbey is purple.

George VI's coronation occurred May 12th 1937, too late for Lent.

Also, the Abbey has no purple altar frontals for the High Altar.

In the climactic 1939 speech scene, 'King George VI' (qv) says he doesn't know how to thank Lionel Logue for his assistance.

In real life, the King had made Logue a Member (4th Class) of the Royal Victorian Order [now called a Lieutenant] on 11 May 1937.

It's a rare and distinguished honour, and a personal gift bestowed by the monarch in gratitude of personal service to the British Crown.

The King advanced Logue to Commander of the order in 1944.

When the newsreel about the Coronation ends, it is immediately followed by a report of a big outdoor Nazi rally with 'Adolf Hitler' (qv) taking the salute, then footage of Hitler addressing an audience indoors.

The second Hitler scene is from at least four years earlier, when he was still trying to appeal for votes.

Also, one of the scenes show SA leader Ernst Röhm, who was executed in an internal purge (and, consequently, all public display of his image was banned) nearly two years before the actions in the movie took place.

In the final speech scene, 'Colin Firth' (qv) has lost one contact lens, resulting in the appearance of 'King George VI' (qv) having one blue eye, and one brown.

Each time Queen Elizabeth enters the elevator, she pushes the "down" button to go to the basement or lower level of the building where the speech therapist's office was.

The elevator is clearly going down each time.

However, his office has huge sky lights and windows, indicating it is on an upper floor.

In the film Churchill is presented as a critic of Edward VIII.

In reality he was one of his strongest supporters, defending him in Parliament and urging him not to abdicate.

It's very unlikely that Logue's boys would make plastic models in the mid- to late 1930s.

Scale modeling then was done in balsa wood.

Plastic models (made of a different plastic than used now) were available for a short time before WW II, but they were removed from the market for wartime production of other items.

At the end of the movie, in an adjacent room to where the King is delivering his wartime speech to the nation, we see a group of men listening to it via headphones.

On the table is a very dusty bakelite loudspeaker cabinet.

This loudspeaker was manufactured in the UK by a broadcast relay company called Rediffusion Limited in the 1950s, it could not, therefore, have been in use at the time King George VI made his speech.

When Bertie is meeting Baldwin to discuss David's abdication, Bertie is shown in close-up with a speck of dandruff on his lapel.

after a cut-away the speck of dandruff has gone.

When attending Wallis Simpson's party, the gramophone is supposed to be playing the music that is heard but although the turntable is spinning, the reproducer is not lowered on to the record to actually play the music.

The King's Speech is a controversial movie, no doubt in that. Most of the arguments against this movie focus on one thing: "This was not how it actually happened.

Although slow as per intuition, the film has a solid script.

A "period piece" that tells the "true story" of how "King" George VI's ascension to the throne and overcoming his speech "impediment", motivated by a "strong sense of duty towards his country", with the help of his "considerate and loving wife" and his "peculiar" speech therapist. A pure Oscar-bait film!

The true-life story of one man's journey to overcome a speech impediment, with the added twist that that man just so happens to be the king of England. This is carefully crafted, emphasising characterisation over drama or action and with a wonderful and engaging script (incredible to believe that David Seidler's prior screenplay to this was the David Carradine vehicle KUNG FU KILLER).

Don't get me wrong, I thought this movie was good. But that's the thing, it was just good.

This past year's Academy Award winner for Best Picture, The King's Speech, looked to me like another boring exercise in British stuffiness. I was wrong.

Good entertainment, interesting story and great acting from the cast. This being said, this movie is certainly nowhere near a masterpiece.

George VI has stuttering condition but he has to make a speech because of his important position. He decides to ask Australian speech therapist, Lionel to cope with him.

The King's Speech is focused on a King of the United Kingdom, George VI and his speech therapist. They make an effort together to treat George's stammering symptom.