If you thought the only Hungarian connection to vampires is Bela Lugosi, and the only vampire connection to Prince Charles is Dracula – think again.
I call bull malarkey. Prince Charles might want to believe that he is a direct descendent of Vlad III of Wallachia—aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula—and he may want us all to believe it, too. But it isn’t true. Rather, if it is, it means far less than Charley would like to admit. Why does he even want to be related to Dracula? Likely there are political reasons for it. Or perhaps it’s just for the coolness factor. Charley could be a big old geek.
Either way, let’s throw a little cold water on this claim. First, run the numbers. If Dracula had only two children (he actually had more than that) and each of those kids had two of his own, and then each of those had two . . . you see where I’m going with this? Half of Europe today could claim descent from the infamous Impaler. And that’s if Dracula’s line didn’t die off in the century following his death, which Dracula experts Randu Florescu and Raymond McNally attest. The bottom line: At best, Charley’s claim of blood descent is tenuous. At worst, it’s a lie. Anybody have any “evidence” to present to the contrary?
