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• For this troper it's this scene: Lionel and Albert are in Westminster Abbey trying to practice for Albert's coronation. Lionel is audacious enough to sit in St. Edward's Chair and Albert is hopelessly trying to get him to move shouting for Lionel to listen to him. Lionel then goes for the "I-don't-care-if-you're-royalty" card and asks why he should waste the time listening to him. Albert then replies, with strong conviction:

Albert: BECAUSE I HAVE A VOICE!

• • To anyone who's ever had a speech impediment or some other issue that stifles them, this is something powerful, I think.
  • This could probably also double as a Heartwarming Moment because Lionel then says:

Lionel: Yes, you do.

• The King's first wartime speech. Although Albert's speaking has improved immensely thanks to Lionel, he still has tremendous trouble adressing large crowds. In the final speech of the film, not only does he read the entire speech with very little hesitation, he does it over the wireless, broadcasting to every corner of the British Empire. And when he walks out of the broadcast booth, the entire Palace is applauding him. Which doubles as a Heartwarming Moment. Throughout the entirety of speech, with the shots of people all over England listening to what he's saying, and Lionel helping him through the whole time, and to top it all off, Beethoven's Seventh playing in the background.
• After being once again berated by the ailing King George V for stuttering, Albert is exhausted and resting at his room. The scene is immensely depressing. And then he takes out the record Lionel recorded of him reading Shakespeare, but with the music played so loud such that he cannot hear himself. His reading is flawless. It's their first realization that Albert can indeed be cured.
  • Albert and Elizabeth's jaw-dropped expression just adds to it.