{"id":277934,"date":"2025-07-20T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277934\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:49:09","slug":"luke-evans-recalls-king-charles-surprising-link-to-vlad-the-impaler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277934\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Evans recalls King Charles\u2019 surprising link to Vlad the Impaler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Luke Evans has shed light on how he met King Charles<\/a> in his 2025 memoir \u2018Boy from the Valleys: My Unexpected Journey\u2019. The incident, which took place back in 2014, at Prince\u2019s Trust gala dinner held at The Savoy Hotel in London, led the actor to learn some “fascinating” royal family history, reports People.<\/p>\n

The actor, who had been named an ambassador for the charity, which the King founded in 1976 to support disadvantaged youth, was meeting the monarch for the first time.<\/p>\n

The meeting also saw the two exchange what Evans describes as \u201ca good, strong handshake\u201d before the King casually inquired about his latest project, which had a Vlad the Impaler connection.<\/p>\n

Evans had just wrapped Dracula Untold when he met the King. He portrayed Vlad the Impaler, the brutal 15th-century Romanian ruler who inspired Bram Stoker\u2019s iconic vampire <\/a>in the film. But little did he know that the King would reveal a distant family link to the real-life Dracula himself.<\/p>\n

King Charles revealed his connection to Vlad the Impaler<\/p>\n

When Luke mentioned his role as Vlad the Impaler in Dracula Untold, \u201cthe King\u2019s eyes lit up,\u201d Evans wrote. The royal then said, \u201cI will tell you an interesting story. I am actually related to Vlad Tepes.\u201d To Evans\u2019 surprise, \u201che then proceeded to talk me through his entire lineage, all the way back to the 1400s,\u201d and added, \u201cHe told me he now owns a number of properties in Romania, where Vlad was ruler.\u201d Charles then smiled, saying, \u201cYes, and not a lot of people know it.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I noticed he had stayed a little longer with me than he had with other guests, probably because we had this fascinating thing to talk about,” Evans wrote.<\/p>\n

Luke Evans’ experience meeting King Charles<\/p>\n

In his memoir, Evans has also shared his first impression of meeting King Charles, noting the monarch\u2019s rare ability to truly engage. “Charles makes you feel as if he\u2019s genuinely interested in what you have to say, which is remarkable when you consider he has to do this several times a day,” Evans wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You imagine he\u2019d become robotic, just going through the motions every time, but he really seems to engage,” he added. Evans also expressed deep pride in being part of \u201ca fantastic institution.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those unaware, long before his conversation with Luke Evans, King Charles had publicly claimed a distant link to Vlad the Impaler during a 2011 TV special focused on forest conservation in Romania<\/a>. \u201cThe genealogy shows that I am descended from Vlad the Impaler,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cSo I have a bit of a stake in the country.\u201d Luke Evans’ memoir Boy from the Valleys, released in the US on April 22.<\/p>\n

FAQs1. How is King Charles related to Vlad the Impaler?<\/p>\n

Through distant royal ancestry, King Charles claims to be descended from Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century Romanian ruler who inspired the legend of Dracula.<\/p>\n

2. What did Luke Evans say about meeting King Charles?<\/p>\n

Evans said King Charles was genuinely engaged in conversation.<\/p>\n

3. What is Luke Evans\u2019 memoir called?<\/p>\n

The memoir is titled Boy from the Valleys: My Unexpected Journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Luke Evans has shed light on how he met King Charles in his 2025 memoir \u2018Boy from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[104810,1760,95425,104808,104807,5105,7710,519,448,104809],"class_list":{"0":"post-277934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-dracula-untold","9":"tag-king-charles","10":"tag-luke-evans","11":"tag-luke-evans-meets-king-charles","12":"tag-luke-evans-memoir","13":"tag-royal","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-royals","17":"tag-vlad-the-impaler"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114886827423401879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}