Friday, October 28, 2011

Prince Charles Related to Dracula

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/10/prince-charles-says-hes-related-to-dracula/

Prince Charles is claiming that he’s related to Dracula.

“The genealogy shows that I am descended from Vlad the Impaler,” Charles said.

Vlad the Impaler was also known as Dracula, which means son of the dragon (dracul) in the Romanian dialect of the time. Vlad’s father was a member of the Order of the Dragon.

Vlad, 15th-Century Romanian warlord, also inspired the 1897 novel “Dracula” by Bram Stoker.

The heir to the British throne  was making the connection during an interview that will air as part of an upcoming TV show to promote the preservation of forests in Romania’s Transylvania region.  “So I have a bit of a stake in the country,” the prince said.

Charles, who owns a home in the region, has said Transylvania’s pristine landscapes and rural farming traditions make it a national treasure.

We know that the various royal families of Europe would arrange marriages with other royal families in order to forge bonds/allegiances in part and partly I suppose from the notion that all royalty was different both in kind and degree from peasants/serfs/commoners. It was this practice of consanguineous inbreeding which contributed to the genetic disorder of hemophilia (bleeding) which traces to the Romanov lineage in Russia.  Since education and cultivation of arts was a privilege of the wealthy and powerful it was probably considered more appropriate to arrange a marriage with a member of a royal household.

It is interesting to note that in the Greek language the word for vampire is "vreekolakas" and the Greek Orthodox Church in its theological document "Pedalion" (The Rudder) mentions that such things as vampires do not exist.

// posted by Sitaram @ 3:14 PM
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