Goofs

When Bertie and Elizabeth are leaving Fort Belvedere Wallis and her husband pulled up you can hear Wallis calling David his first name. But when they get out of the car Thelma introduces Wallis to David as the person who would look after him while she was away.

At the scene where Bertie and Elizabeth are dining with Bertie's family, the napkin King George V uses changes position. When Queen Mary finishes her line "There was an unfortunate photograph of you in the newspapers the other day, wearing what they described as 'bell bottoms'. They won't do!" As the Queen Mary is saying this line, the King appears to produce a hankie in disgust at his son's behavior. But in the next shot, the handkerchief in his hand appears to change both material and position.

Just before his coronation, the new king George VI describes the coronation crown as Edward the Confessor's Crown. He would presumably know that the crown is in fact a replica created for the coronation of Charles II, although it is often referred to as St. Edward's crown (Edward the Confessor having been made a saint).

After World War II, there is a scene where Queen Mary makes a comment about Gandhi's "loincloth" on display (which is actually a khadi) to one of her granddaughters, who talks about her admiration of Gandhi to her grandmother, implying that Mary doesn't know who Gandhi is. Actually, in real life, Mary and George V had tea with Gandhi when he traveled to London in 1931 for the Round Table Conference for India's independence.

As the Abdication Crisis is reaching a climax, there's a scene of Bertie being driven to an official meeting. At the gates, as his car passes through, ivy is in full bloom on the walls and trees in the background have green leaves on them. The Crisis reached its peak at the beginning of December 1936. The trees would have been bare at that time.

When Montgomery comes to the palace after the Battle of Alamein, Princess Elizabeth is wearing ATS uniform. Alamein was in 1942. Elizabeth didn't join the Army until 1945 (she was only 16 in 1942).

The Duchess of York is shown as being pregnant at the time of her and the Duke's first visit to Lionel Logue. In fact, the visit took place in October of 1926 when the infant Princess Elizabeth was already six months old.

A British Movietone Newsreel, complete with commentary, shows the Duke of York attending the Empire Exhibition at Wembley. This visit took place in October 1925 - not only is this four years before Movietone News began in Britain, but it is two years before sound film was invented. The Exhibition was covered by British Pathe News but the film is of course silent.

During scenes that take place during WWII, the dowager Queen Mary is seen living in Buckingham Palace with the rest of the royal family. However, in reality, the former Queen went to live in Badminton House in the countryside.

When Queen Mary said that the last commoner to marry into the Royal Family was Anne Boleyn, this was incorrect. Prince George (later King George IV) secretly married a commoner Maria Fitzherbert, although this marriage was ruled invalid and illegal. His younger brother Prince Augustus Frederick had two wives, both minor noblewomen. James II was married to Anne Hyde in 1660. Even Henry VIII's later wives Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr were of similar non-royal status as Anne Boleyn.

In one scene where the King and the Queen are watching a German newsreel covering the Duke of Windsor's visit to Germany, Tommy Lascelles can be heard translating the German text for the King. But in reality, this would have been unnecessary as both the King and the Queen could speak German.