The castle used to portray the fictional castle of Voldavia, Romania's Peles Castle, was also used to portray the castles of fictional countries in several similar royal-themed romantic TV movies, such as A Princess for Christmas (2011) and A Christmas Prince (2017).
When Kate goes to the community center for the first time, the young girl sitting at the bake sale table is Lenz's daughter, Maria.
Will Kemp's Hallmark debut. He would later star in two movies with Lacey Chabert: Love, Romance & Chocolate (2019) and Christmas Waltz (2020).
Filmed in Romania in November 2017.
An e-book by author Reagan Phillips with the same title and a similar plot was published the year before this TV movie premiered. However, the two are unrelated.