Prince Edward, Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son, was a huge fan of the movie Shakespeare in Love, in which Colin Firth portrayed a fictional royal named Lord Wessex. When he got married in 1999, Edward asked his mother if he could take the title of Earl of Wessex because of the movie. She obliged, and now Edward and his wife Sophie are known as the Earl and Countess of Wessex.

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