Twilight’s Robert Pattinson Is A Real Life Dracula Descendant

I’m sure many of you are waiting for our next update on solving the Lost In Forks Game, and I assure you the next post is coming, but I came across this amusing tidbit this evening about our beloved Robert Pattinson.  Sure, he plays a vampire on the big screen, but after some recent digging by the folks at ancestry.com it turns out that RPatz is in fact the descendant of  Vlad III Dracula, the inspiration behind Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist at Ancestry.com, recently told Reuters, “Tracing Pattinson’s family back to Vlad was difficult research, but the pieces that unraveled created the perfect accompaniment to ‘The Twilight Saga’.”  According the the report

Family history experts said Pattinson and Vlad — the Transylvania-born despot also known as Vlad the Impaler — are likely related through today’s British royal family.

Pattinson, 24, is a distant cousin of Prince William and Prince Harry on their father’s side, probably through the Pickering family who lived in northern England in the early 1500s, Ancestry.com said.

“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 is playing on screen,” Tyler said.

The report also mentions Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films.  Research finds that the silver screen wizard is related to a 16th Century woman who was accused of witchcraft.