Best Answer: There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves of chess. In addition, America's Foundation for Chess found that there were. 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,00... ways to play the first ten moves of chess.
Wessex is still a recognised geographical area of south /southwest England and is in the Queens prerogative to grant titles as she wishes. I understand that this is a stop gap title for Edward until both The Queen and Prince Philip are dead when he will inherit his fathers title of Duke of Edinburgh.
Trivia. 1  The title is a reference to the fabled execution method of the Vikings. 2  Kings Ecbert of Wessex and Aella of Northumbria were not exact contemporaries in real life. 3  The marriage between Judith and Aethelwulf of Wessex took place in 856 CE, more than fifty years later than depicted in the series.