 Director Matthew Vaughn is a descendant of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl  of Oxford and Mortimer. For several reasons, he is not eligible to  be the Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (one of which being the fact that  the line has been discontinued and replaced by the Earl of Oxford  and Asquith). When charming American girls at a bar in the film,  Dexter Fletchers character Cody tells Tiptoes that he is pretending  to be the Earl of Oxford.