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Slate Magazine reported that in 1999, when Queen Elizabeth II was preparing to bestow a new noble title to her son Prince Edward, she originally wanted to make him the Duke of Cambridge. But after he saw Shakespeare in Love, he asked her if he could instead be the “Earl of Wessex,” after Colin Firth’s character, Lord Wessex, even though the character is villainous and unlikable. He requested and received the “Wessex” title and is sometimes known as Edward Wessex (x)