Prince Charles Says He Is a Descendant of Count Dracula
Posted by | Posted in Business Days | Posted on 24-10-2011
Prince Charles is claiming that he’s related to Dracula, aka Vlad the Impaler.
“The genealogy shows that I am descended from Vlad the Impaler,” Charles said, according to ABCNews.com.
Prince Charles, the heir and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of the United Kingdom, was making the connection during an interview that will air as part of an upcoming TV show to promote the preservation of forests in Romania’s Transylvania region. “So I have a bit of a stake in the country,” the prince said.
In 2006 the prince bought a house in the village of Viscri in southeastern Transylvania, one of the Saxon villages with fortified churches in Transylvania designated in 1993 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO; in 2008 he bought another house in the village of Valea Zalánpatak in the Székely Land region of Transylvania, a 16th-century village probably founded by one of the Prince’s Transylvanian ancestors. Both properties are rented out as guest houses when the prince is not in residence.
Vlad the Impaler, who lived from 1431?1476, also is known by his patronymic Dracula, which means son of the Dragon.
Vlad is remembered for spending much of his rule campaigning against the Ottoman Empire and its expansion and for the impaling of enemies. The name of the vampire Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula was inspired by Vlad’s patronymic.
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