Luke Evans Recalls King Charles Revealing He’s Related to Vlad the Impaler, Who Inspired Dracula: ‘Incredible Story’

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  1. TLDR:

    * [Luke Evans](https://people.com/luke-evans-has-terrible-anxiety-about-his-body-8752795) is recounting a conversation he had with [King Charles](https://people.com/person/king-charles-iii/) that delved into some “fascinating” royal family history.
    * In his 2025 memoir, *Boy from the Valleys: My Unexpected Journey*, the 46-year-old actor wrote about being invited to a Prince’s Trust gala dinner at The Savoy Hotel in London in 2014. Evans, who said it was the first time he had an opportunity to meet the King, 76, remembered watching the monarch make his way around the room, greeting all of his guests. When the royal reached Evans, the two shared “a good, strong handshake,” and then the King asked what he was working on.
    * At the time, the Welsh star had just finished filming the action-horror film ‘Dracula Untold,’ in which he played Vlad Tepes III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula. The royal then said, “I’ll tell you an interesting story. I’m actually related to Vlad Tepes.”

  2. Dude, not to be weird, but I just said on a recent post that Charles kind of looked like Dracula in his formal outfit for the French State Banquet.

  4. Despite her reputation for being obsessed with status and lineage, Queen Mary was rather proud of her connections via morganatic marriage to the Balkans. It’s said that once when—I believe in relation to the release of the original film of Dracula, of all things—Transylvania was mentioned, she looked slyly amused and said, “Some of us come from there, you know…”

    The King’s fondness for the area is well known; he owns a private house in Transylvania and is good friends with Margareta, head of the former Romanian royal family (who is also his cousin).

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