(possibly deliberate by filmmakers) Henry is seen to be composing the song "Greensleeves." There is a persistent belief that Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn. It is said that Boleyn's alleged rejection of King Henry's attempts to seduce her may be referred to in the song when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously." However, Henry did not compose "Greensleeves," which is probably Elizabethan in origin and is based on an Italian-style of composition that did not reach England until after his death.
Christian Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, lived from 1629 to 1695. Wolsey could not have had such clock a century earlier.
When the Spanish ambassador makes the baise-main to the Queen, we can clearly see a telephone pole in the background.