This doesn't impress Bertie and he finds it difficult to understand and accept his new teacher's unorthodox techniques. Her techniques seem useless and stupid to Albert and he finds it difficult to digest the student-teacher relationship between the two of them. but slowly over time their friendship grows and a bond develops. Their relationship is an interesting layer of the film: the delicate balance between Albert as King (royal) and Lionel (commoner) is cleverly portrayed with Lionel pushing the boundaries and challenging him. Let's see the ingredients of a true friendship. You would think that seeing a bunch of verbal drills and language exercises would be boring and make the movie really boring. There are a lot of them and they're silly, but they're funny enough to get a good laugh out of. The humor in the film is subtle but candid, even when Lionel encourages His Royal Highness to use swear words of the four-letter variety as a way to connect words in a speech he has difficulty saying. and I couldn't help but laugh when I heard a member of the royal family