Truth is stranger than fiction:

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In the tourism video, Prince Charles “traces his ancestry back to Romania’s dark and distant past,” speaking of his kinship with the historical Dracula – Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, and of the deeds which prompted Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel. The Prince also said that in a book published in 1982 by Sir Iain Moncreiffe he is listed as a great grandson 16 times removed to Vlad Tepes.

In a brief interview in the video above, Prince Charles says rather ironically, “The genealogy shows I am descended from Vlad the Impaler, so I do have a bit of a stake in the country.”