Robert Pattinson And Dracula Are Distant Relatives

LOS ANGELES — Robert Pattinson isn't the only famous vampire in his family.

Genealogists say the 24-year-old "Twilight" star is related to Vlad the Impaler, widely cited as the inspiration for the main character in Bram Stoker's "Dracula."

Researchers at Ancestry.com discovered that Pattinson and the Transylvanian leader (real name: Vlad III Dracula) are connected through their relationship to the British royal family. Prince William and Prince Harry are Pattinson's distant cousins; Vlad the Impaler was their distant uncle.

"Tracing Pattinson's family back to Vlad was difficult research, but the pieces that unraveled created the perfect accompaniment to the Twilight Saga," said Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist at Ancestry.com. "Without any myth or magic, we find royalty and vampires lurking in Pattinson's life – making his story just as supernatural as the one he's playing on screen."

Also connected to the prince's lineage and therefore to Dracula? Stephenie Meyer, the author of the "Twilight" series.

The latest big-screen installment in the popular vampire saga, "Eclipse," opens June 30.

Comments

[petrifiedamber]

12:24 PM on 06/24/2010

No surprise then that Pattinson bites.

[willtij]

11:36 AM on 06/24/2010

I think they meant to say that Pattinson is related to Count Chocula not Dracula.

[Brautigan]

06:33 AM on 06/24/2010

Somewhere, in a far away land long forgotten, Vlad the Impaler is rolling in his grave.

[Chad McVeigh]

06:15 AM on 06/24/2010

Wow...this might be the most frivolous story I've read on here in weeks.

[RButler]

05:40 AM on 06/24/2010

Yeah. So, how is he connected to Kevin Bacon?

The Lost Boys was a classic vampire movie but this current fad is worse than living death.

[FallenAngelII]

05:35 AM on 06/24/2010

Meyer is related to the British royal family? How awful for them!

[Kevin Ting]

04:10 AM on 06/24/2010

So... does that mean we get the go to burn him at stake? If so... BURN HIM AT STAKE!!!

[peegan]

02:52 AM on 06/24/2010

Wait a minute, if Robert Pattinson is related to Vlad through the British royal family and George Bush is related to the royal family (as reported years ago), this explains so much.

[OkieIntellectual]

02:48 AM on 06/24/2010

Yeah well, he's still a loust actor whose fame comes from a lousy series of books from an author who basically stole the story from another author.

[Coma]

01:50 AM on 06/24/2010

There are arguments about how many electrons there are in the universe. One commonly mentioned estimate is 6*10^79 (a 6 followed by 79 zeroes). That seems low to me, as it might to you.

Low or not, it's safe to assume that the universe is pretty much swimming in electrons. Each star is an electron depository, as is every rock, every planet, every chunk of ice. And this is not including whatever electrons may have been incorporated into each of the many black holes scattered about the universe. Think of all the grains of sand in the world... as a percentage of the number of electrons in the universe, the sand wouldn't even register at a human scale.

And all this is assuming the unseen Dark Matter which comprises the vast majority of our universe does *not* contain electrons.

My point?

There aren't enough electrons in the universe to waste them researching this kind of junk.

[stringer]

01:28 AM on 06/24/2010

The comments on here are hilarious and on point.

[DosGatos2]

01:15 AM on 06/24/2010

So are William and Harry vampires too? THAT would be news. This? Meh.

[alteredstory]

01:27 AM on 06/24/2010

No, they're werewolves.

Seriously.

I know this because Dr. Who said so.

this is srs bsnss

[bigmovieman]

02:44 AM on 06/24/2010

haha, one of the few episodes I saw. I wish I still got the show... :(

[willtij]

11:32 AM on 06/24/2010

I love watching Doctor Who, who is a much more interesting subject than this nonsense.

[Militant Leftist]

01:09 AM on 06/24/2010

Too bad he's not related to Laurence Olivier

[spaceboobies]

02:30 AM on 06/24/2010

lmao!

[Militant Leftist]

08:29 AM on 06/24/2010

Great moniker (I think?). While on the subject of "Twilight", I recall one critic giving it a one sentence review. He/she said, "Dracula meets 'Saved By the Bel'"l. Nuff said. I know it's marketed to teens, thus the lacking sophistication, but I'll still take "True Blood" ANYTIME over this drivel.

[HekmagaJuximakLives]

01:06 AM on 06/24/2010

More BS from the world of entertainment.

[Hot Frank Dog]

12:51 AM on 06/24/2010

Dracula had a unibrow?

[KriTiKiT]

02:01 AM on 06/24/2010

and he ate women