The Romanian tourist board is to use links between the British Royal family and Count Dracula to lure in UK tourists, it has emerged...
“Transylvania is in my blood,” he jokes in an interview first shown on satelite television last year. “The genealogy shows I am descended from Vlad the Impaler, so I do have a bit of a stake in the country.”
According to Royal Highness, a book published in 1982 by Sir Iain Moncreiffe, the former chairman of Debrett’s, the Prince is a great grandson 16 times removed to Vlad III.
He can trace his lineage back through his great grandmother Queen Mary, the consort of George V, to Vlad IV, the half brother of the notorious ruler.
actually the geneology at the end shows he is only descended from Vlad's half brother, Vlad the Monk...
headsup Father L...
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