It seems that Robert Pattinson, the star from Twilight, truly have vampire roots. For those who belive in Dracula myth, Pattinson is a distant relative of Vlad the Impaler, historical character who inspired Bram Stocker.
This statement belongs to genealogist Anastasia Tyler. "Tracing Pattinson’s family back to Vlad was difficult research, but the pieces that unraveled created the perfect accompaniment to ‘The Twilight Saga’," said Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist, for Ancestry.com, quoted by Reuters.
Experts say Pattinson and Vlad The Impaler (1431-1476) are likely related through today’s British royal family.
Pattinson 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.
"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.
24 June 2010 is the release date for the third film of the saga, "Twilight: Eclipse", at the Los Angeles Film Festival.