Goofs for
The Lion in Winter (1968) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: Wake from the boat carrying the camera and crew visible when Eleanor is being ferried to Henry's castle.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the battle at the beginning of the movie, the second group of ambushing mounted warriors charge onto the beach from their hiding place in the rocks. Although it is supposed to be a surprise attack, the pathway from the hiding place to the battle, on otherwise pristine sand, is visible from previous takes.
  
  
• Factual errors: At one point Eleanor states that the year is 1183. At another point Henry II claims "I'm 50 now, I've even got 10 years on the Pope." However, the pope in 1183 was Lucius III who was born in Lucca Italy in 1097. Henry II was born on 5 March 1133, making him 36 years younger than the pope.
  
  

• Continuity: For a moment Eleanor appears in front of Henry and Alais. Then she puts her hands one on the other, about her breast, and says to Henry she wants to watch him to kiss Alais. In the following shot her hands had changed position.
  
  
• Continuity: After John goes out of the room, Eleanor stands up and talks to Geoffrey gesticulating with her right hand about her neck. Next shot her right hand is lower, about her belly.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Eleanor lights a torch and steps down the stairs followed by a guard, the torch shadow projects on the guard and, after, on the wall on the left. It is supposed to be the only light came from the torch.
  
  
• Factual errors: There was a Christmas Court at Caen in 1182, but not one at Chinon in 1183.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Just after Henry II finishes the sword fight with Prince John, a modern white house appears momentarily on the hill behind him.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Eleanor refers to syphilis in 1183, although the first recorded outbreak was in 1494. The term 'syphilis' wasn't coined until 1530.
  
  
• Anachronisms: There is a Christmas tree in the castle/palace at Chinon. They weren't around until well after the end of the Middle Ages.
  
  
• Continuity: After Henry asks for an annulment from Eleanor, he gets up from his chair, crosses the room, and leans forward against a stone pillar. When Eleanor follows him in the next shot, as she draws closer to him, he is standing in the middle of the room, nowhere near a pillar.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The song Alais sings while Henry is fighting John is called "Allon, Gay Bergeres." This chanson was written by Guillaume Costeley during the Renaissance, nearly 400 years after the events in the movie take place.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight between Eleanor's guard and the jail-keep, Eleanor's guard pushes the other against the wall and knocks the sword out of his hand. When the jail-keep draws his knife, suddenly Eleanor's guard is against the wall instead.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the movie Prince Richard (later King Richard I) is depicted as having a homosexual relationship with King Philip of France. Actually it was his brother Geoffery who was Philips lover.
  
  
• Anachronisms: No such thing as a 'Christmas tree' in the 12th century.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene involving Philip's first negotiation with Henry, the goblet that Katharine Hepburn is holding switches hands in two consecutive shots.
  
  

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