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Factual error: The Torre delle Milizie is visible from the courtyard in the Vatican and looks fairly close. You can't even see the tower from the Vatican. It's quite a long way away.

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Factual error: The RAF Dakota that flies Robin and Diana back from Kenya in 1959 has American markings and D-Day invasion stripes, marking it as a heritage aircraft rather than a service aircraft of the era.

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Factual error: The film describes the British headquarters in Kenya as the "British Embassy." Kenya was still a colony, so there was no British embassy; it was Government House.

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Factual error: Although addressed throughout the film using his correct rank of Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-Colonel), Rudolf Höss wears the rank insignia of the lower rank of Sturmbannführer (Major).

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Season 3 generally

Factual error: Northern Irish characters speaking to other Northern Irish characters refer to cellphones or cells. They're always known as mobile phones or mobiles in the British Isles. Nobody would use the American term.

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Factual error: Someone shouts "jobsworth" at a London Underground official. This term is first recorded in 1970. The film is set in 1940.

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Factual error: The presidents of South Africa, South West Africa and the Rhodesias all object to Seretse and Ruth's marriage. But the head of state of all these countries and territories at the time was King George VI. None of them had presidents.

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Show generally

Factual error: Karl Silberbauer, who headed the raid on the secret annexe, wears the insignia of an SS-Sturmbannführer (major). He was actually an SS-Hauptscharführer (senior sergeant). His superior is addressed in German as "Herr Major" (not an SS rank and not how an SS officer would be addressed), but wears the insignia of an SS-Standartenführer (colonel).

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Lochan Mor - S3-E8

Factual error: The credits refer to a 'PSNI lieutenant'. The Police Service of Northern Ireland uses standard British police ranks. He would be an inspector.

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Lochan Mor - S3-E8

Factual error: Having crossed on the ferry from Stranraer to Northern Ireland, the Sons have a long ride through the Northern Irish countryside before reaching Belfast. However, the ferry from Stranraer docks at Belfast. They wouldn't be going anywhere near the countryside.

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Season 2 generally

Other mistake: The police vehicles are marked with the fictional 'Greater London Police', but in speech the characters refer to the real Metropolitan Police.

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Season 2 generally

Trivia: Instead of the Royal Air Force, the series has a fictitious British Air Force with largely invented insignia. Ranks are taken from the RAF, but sometimes different rank insignia is worn (e.g. an air vice-marshal wearing air marshal's insignia and a flight lieutenant wearing flying officer's insignia, although another flight lieutenant wears correct insignia).

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Ritz - S6-E8

Factual error: Peter Townsend is depicted in 1945 wearing the ribbons of the DSO (which he won in 1941) and the DFC (which he won in 1940), but not the rosette indicating a bar to the DFC (which he also won in 1940) and the 1939-45 Star (which he would have been awarded in 1943).

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Ruritania - S6-E6

Factual error: The swan official is described as the Warden of the Swans. The official depicted is actually the Marker of the Swans, a different post which wears the uniform shown.

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Part 3 - S1-E3

Factual error: A British radio news bulletin refers to "Aydolf" Hitler. The British always used the original German pronunciation with a short A rather than the American pronunciation with a long A.

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Part 3 - S1-E3

Factual error: A British soldier in 1940 says he was educated at the University of Warwick. The university wasn't founded until 1965.

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Episode #1.3 - S1-E3

Character mistake: Richie Gulliver is referred to as Rory Gulliver on the newspaper headline. As he's supposedly a very well-known Member of the Scottish Parliament, it's unlikely a newspaper would make a mistake like this.

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Demon 79 - S6-E5

Continuity mistake: When Nida is chasing Smart in her car, they are (correctly for England, in which it is set) driving on the left until they reach the level crossing. After they cross the level crossing, they are both seen driving on the right, with Nida trying to overtake Smart on the left. This has nothing to do with changing lanes during a chase, as Smart is, at that stage, unaware that he is being pursued.

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Factual error: The SS commander wears the collar patch of a Hauptsturmführer (captain), but the epaulettes of an Unterscharführer (corporal).

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Factual error: Flight Sergeant Rollright wears the three chevrons of a sergeant, rather than the three chevrons and a crown of a flight sergeant.

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