Walt Disney green lit this film as he thought it would be nominated for Best Picture Academy Award at the 1954 Oscars. It wasn't.
The 3rd Live-Action film produced by Disney.
An English royal in early 1500s would have had no plan to go to the American continents. Mary died in 1533, several decades before the first English settlement in Jamestown. It would have been a wholly infeasible plan
Rosalie Crutchley - here playing Henry VIII's first wife - would play his sixth and final wife in Catherine Parr (1970).