Continuity mistake: After Marguerite tastes the chocolate, when Henry walks over to Louise and Paulette, Louise holds an abundant armful of corn ears in the shot facing the women. In the shot facing Henry, as she turns her body there is nothing in her left arm, but then the corn is back for her to toss. (00:51:50)
Continuity mistake: In the scene when Danielle is brushing the stepmother's hair and the stepmother pulls her to the ground to touch her face, Angelica Huston's hand keeps on moving from Danielle's face to her own face in every shot. (00:54:15)
Continuity mistake: Before church services, when the Baroness and her daughters step out of the carriage they are met by the Royal Page, who has the hidden pendant. In shots facing the Baroness, he is holding his bag in his arm with its cord dangling, but in shots facing him that bag's cord is slung over his shoulder. (00:59:20)
Continuity mistake: When Danielle's step-sisters go to church, so that Marguerite can "unexpectedly" find a broach belonging to the queen, she enters the carriage with straight frizzy hair and exits with luxuriously curled locks. (01:02:00)
Continuity mistake: When Danielle and Prince Henry are just about to fight with the gypsies in the woods, Danielle is clambering up a cliff, when you see her the sky is light blue as it is daytime, but in the next shot the sky is dark (night time) and then back to light blue again. (01:04:40)
Continuity mistake: While Danielle is up in the tree, when Henry is punched by the Gypsy and lands on his back, the Gypsy draws his two swords and holds them up high. However, when Henry says, "Oh no, it's you again," both of the Gypsy's swords are sheathed and his hands are down. Then, when Henry draws his own sword, the Gypsy's swords are still held up high. (01:04:45)
Continuity mistake: When Danielle is climbing down the tree, in the overhead shot the Gypsy is holding the sword in his right hand with Danielle's dress held up high on the sword tip as he thanks her, but next shot he's gripping the dress in his raised left hand. (More visible on fullscreen DVD.) (01:05:25)
Continuity mistake: When the gypsies are in the wood fighting with Henry, the head of the gypsies has a large leaf on the front of his shirt. It disappears and then reappears when he laughs. (More visible on fullscreen DVD.) (01:06:15)
Continuity mistake: When Marguerite threatens to toss 'Utopia' into the fireplace, she holds the book out to her left, where the fireplace and its roaring fire are located. When Danielle hands over the glass slippers, Marguerite moves her arm from her side and proceeds to forcefully throw the book down directly in front of her (between Marguerite and Danielle, who face each other). Odd though, how in the next close-up 'Utopia' is shown having been tossed straight into the fire to burn, as Danielle screams. (01:13:35)
Continuity mistake: When Prince Henry kisses Danielle at the old castle ruins, just after she has had threatened her oppressor and left the castle, his hand switches from under her arm to over her shoulder. (01:20:40)
Continuity mistake: In the first scene, the king asks Henry "what's this about a servant". During this shot he takes a few steps forward. Then the scene cuts to Henry and we can see the King in the background, again taking some steps forward and saying something, yet nothing can be heard. (01:22:40)
Continuity mistake: Just before Danielle is sold, she has a conversation with her evil stepmother in a narrow pathway in the garden. In the shots of the stepmother speaking, her hands are on her hips but when the shot changes to Danielle, so we see the back of the stepmother, the stepmother's hands are not on her hips anymore until the shot returns to her front. This goes back and forth a few times. (01:37:50)
Continuity mistake: When Henry stops the wedding and allows the Spanish princess to run to her real love, there's a shot where he's taking off his cape. When it switches to the shot with Henry in the background as she's hugging her real love, Prince Henry is just starting to take off his cape again. (01:43:10)
Continuity mistake: When the Prince proposes to Danielle, in the shot from behind her, her long hair is pulled forward in front of her shoulders, but in the shots from the front her hair is behind her shoulders and she did not touch it. (01:47:05)
Continuity mistake: At the end when the court bows to Danielle, in the wide shot you can see Jacqueline curtsying. But when it cuts to the closeup of Marguerite who's standing next to her, you see Jacqueline drop down into her curtsy again. (01:52:30)
Continuity mistake: At the manor, when Leonardo da Vinci hugs Danielle and says, "Think of it as a belated wedding present, Your Highness," the distinctive wood chair (more are all over the manor) is under the side window behind him, also visible as Danielle takes Henry's hands and pulls him towards the alcove with the two windows. Next shot, however, that chair is gone from behind Danielle (where the side window is) and there is only a wood table in front of the center window (fullscreen version).
Continuity mistake: When Prince Henry lowers himself out the castle window, the tied bed linens hang through different sides of the divided window, between the exterior shot of Henry and the interior shot when his parents discover his escape.
Continuity mistake: When Marguerite claims to find the necklace and pendant that the Queen dropped, as she hands it to the Queen, first she holds the pendant in her open palm, then pinches it between her fingers, then again in her open palm.
Continuity mistake: At dinner, when the Baroness complains about it being too dark and accuses the help of stealing the candlesticks, in the first shot the two candles in front of her are about an inch high, but much taller in following shots.
Continuity mistake: When Danielle is up in the tree, Henry and the Gypsy begin to fight. That Gypsy is wearing a greenish hood/shawl over his shoulders, which suddenly disappears and then reappears between shots.
Answer: Rodmilla is an untrustworthy source of information. Rodmilla arrogantly tells Danielle, "I have it on good authority that before your rather embarrassing debut, the prince was about to choose Marguerite to be his bride." I believe Rodmilla is lying to Danielle only to further torment her. Rodmilla plunges the figurative knife into Danielle by declaring her a "pebble in her shoe" step-daughter, before she's taken away by the repulsive Le Pieu. When Henry made the deal with his father, he was given the choice of finding "love" or to marry Spain's Princess due to the marriage treaty. Right before the ball, Henry in despair, thinks he failed at finding love, and King Francis tells him it may have been unfair to put so much pressure on him about Spain's marriage contract. Francis says, "We don't have to announce anything tonight," and Henry replies, "I've made my decision." Their conversation implies Henry agreed to marry the Princess of Spain, and the announcement was to be made at the ball.
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