Topic: Prince Charles is related to Dracula

[crisis]

..or at least he claims to be,

The heir to the British throne says he is related to Vlad the Impaler, the cruel 15th-Century Romanian warlord who helped inspire Bram Stoker's 1897 vampire novel "Dracula."

He makes the comments on an upcoming TV show to promote his interest in protecting the forests of Romania's Transylvania region.

Charles says genealogy shows that he is related to Vlad, giving him a stake in the future of Romania. The prince has long worked to conserve the forests and has bought a home in the region.

On a visit to Romania earlier this year, he called Transylvania a national treasure because of its unspoiled landscape and centuries-old rural farming traditions.

source: http://news.yahoo.com/prince-charles-claims-vlad-impaler-ancestor-112850101.html


interesting...

[X]

I heard about this on the radio earlier today as well. It doesn't really surprise me since most of the old European noble families are related to each other either through blood or marriage.

[KaZudra]

do we burn him?

[TheouAegis]

He has a "stake in the future of Romania"...

I wish I didn't get so many red marks when I took Journalism 101. I could be writing lame puns like that too, otherwise.

[Bloodreign]

The only thing he can impale anyone with are those gigantic ears. So maybe he is related to Drac after all.

[knightmere]

He looks a bit like Nosferatu actually, kinda spooky eh?

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Hmmm.... so he's preserving Transylvanian farmland and forestry..... also known as Transylvanian Earth, huh...
Hmmm...