Goofs

Danielle is whipped by Rodmilla and sustains several deep gashes on her back. She is seen a few days later at the ball, with no scars.

During the tennis match, Prince Henry's hair is shorter than it was before. In the next scene, and for the rest of the movie, it's back to its original length.

The King of France refers to Virginia Garcia's character as Princess Gabriella, In the end titles, she is identified as Princess Gertrude.

Gustav steals the uniform of a palace guard who is much shorter than him, yet it fits perfectly.

During the wedding of Prince Henry to the Princess of Spain, after he decides to let her go she runs off to the short bald guy. In the background, Prince Henry can be seen removing his cape and looking to the side. In the next scene there is a close-up shot of him removing the same cape and smiling before running off.

Throughout the film, Rodmilla mentions Jacqueline's weight as if it is bad. However, in that time period, curvy women were considered more beautiful, as it showed they didn't need to work.

Throughout the film, Leonardo da Vinci is referred to as "Signor da Vinci," and "da Vinci." While referring to the artist as "da Vinci" has become acceptable in modern vernacular, the term means "From Vinci," and is not a surname. Da Vinci would not have been used alone to refer to Leonardo during his lifetime; he would have been called simply "Leonardo" or "Leonardo da Vinci."

When the Prince saves the Mona Lisa, it is rolled up in a tube. The Mona Lisa can't be rolled up; it's painted on wood. It is also much smaller than depicted in the film.

Da Vinci is often called "Signore da Vinci", which is incorrect. In Italian, "signore" is a general term. "Signor" is used with a last name.

In the market scene, Marguerite introduces their servants to the prince and he replies that he'd love to meet them. A noblewoman would never think to introduce her servants to a prince and the prince would never refer to them as "ladies," since that term was used only for nobility and not for any group of women, as in modern terminology.

Various words, such as "philanthropist" and "management," that did not exist at the time are used. It can be assumed we are hearing a modern English translation of what the characters were actually saying.

People call money "francs." The currency of the era was the livre; the franc was introduced after the French Revolution. However, the livre was called the franc as early as the 14th century.

Danielle is consistently shown to be well ahead of the times and unconcerned with following impractical cultural norms. She does many things not considered proper for servants, or women of any status, including reading and discussing philosophy, talking back to her "betters", going about unchaperoned, and climbing trees in expensive and delicate clothing.

When Henry and Danielle are riding the horse - returning from the gypsy camp to the manor house, Danielle is seen riding "astride" (with one leg on each side of the horse). The socially correct manner for Danielle to ride a horse - especially as a "Comtesse" would have been for Danielle to sit "aside" (with both of her legs off to one side of the horse) in front of Henry. In Europe, cultural norms held that it was unbecoming for a lady to straddle a horse while riding. From the 1300's until the early 20th century women rode "aside".

Both the tune and lyric variations were known well before the first written attestations in the 19th century. The actual origins are lost to history, so it could just as easily have begun with Marguerite as anyone else.

When Danielle walks into the room where her step mother and sisters were playing games, after prince Henry returns their horse, Marguerite says "somebody's in trouble" with the tune of "Ring Around the Rosies". That song and/or tune was not even around until the 1700's so she would not have known about it yet.

On the day that Danielle spends with Henry, she is wearing Marguerite's blue dress. One of the gypsies takes and keeps it for his wife, so Danielle returns home without it. Despite constantly complaining about "missing" items, neither the Baroness nor Marguerite ever notice or comment on the absent dress. Additionally odd given that in a time before mass-production, any outfit could take weeks to months to produce - for everyone, but especially for the nobility - and at huge cost. Even the very rich didn't usually have as many outfits to choose from as the average person of today. The loss of one dress would stand out as much as the loss of any other valuable.

The King and Queen of France are red heads and speak with English accents. The rest of the cast speaks with vacillating English to American accents.

During the market scene after Pierre le Pieu leaves Danielle's booth, we can hear a horn blowing during Marguerite's line of "if he didn't buy a bushel of vegetables..."

At the end of the movie, when the camera pans away from the carriage and castle, cars can be seen parked in the town to the right.

Prince Henry exclaims that Danielle is marrying a Belgian. Belgium was established in 1830 as a buffer between France and Germany, to prevent them from going to war so often. Before 1830, the area was a collection of villages that were repeatedly occupied by various European kingdoms. The name Belgium comes from a tribe who lived there during Julius Caesar's conquests of Gaul. He wrote, "Of all Gauls, the Belgians are the bravest." (De Bello Gallico, book I, 1.3).

All the shoes have a left foot and a right foot. That practice was invented by King George IV of England, who ruled from 1820 until 1830, much later than the movie is set.

Utopia was written in 1516, and da Vinci died in 1519. Therefore, Danielle could not have received the book as a child and then met da Vinci as an adult.

When Danielle is putting on her dress to rescue Maurice, we see a zipper on the back of her dress. The zipper wasn't invented until 1851.

When Prince Henry comes upon da Vinci's carriage being robbed one of the gypsies yells out "The royal guards!" Prince Henry is then shown looking over his shoulder to see the guards quickly approaching on horses. He rolls his eyes and is heard saying "I can't believe this," but his mouth doesn't move until a moment later.

Danielle punches Marguerite and chases her down the stairs. Megan Dodds reaches the foot of the stairs, pauses and takes a step back to give Drew Barrymore and the cameraman a few seconds to catch up, and then continues running.

Jacqueline says, "How was I to know he'd come flying out the side door? He was supposed to be getting married," as if she'd been outside from the beginning of the wedding. However, she is clearly seen standing next to her family during the wedding.

Despite being partly based in a fictional folk tale the movie takes place in historical France. Yet, all the characters but Spaniards speak English instead of French. For example, Leonardo Da Vinci did not know any English. He spoke Italian, French, some Greek and maybe Latin too.

At one point, Paulette tells Danielle that the only throne she wants Marguerite sitting on is the one she has to clean every day. While modern toilets are jokingly referred to as thrones due to their identical shape, they did not exist in the 16th century, and many people went in small chamber pots.

The prince regularly calls Danielle "Madame". As an unmarried woman she should be called "Mademoiselle".