Is Twilight star Robert Pattinson related to Vlad the Impaler?
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[release]For the legions of fans who have swooned over his pale skin and ghostly pallor, it might not come as such a surprise:
Robert Pattinson, star of the wildly successful teen bloodsucker series Twilight, is related to a real-life vampire.
OK, that’s stretching it a bit far, but after trawling through thousands of records, genealogists at Ancestry.co.uk have concluded that the 24- year-old actor is a distant relative of 15th-century Romanian ruler Vlad III — aka Vlad the Impaler.
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[I]Spot the resemblance? Robert Pattinson (seen left as Edward Cullen in Twilight) is a distant relative of Vlad the Impaler[/I][/quote]
Vlad is thought to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, which started the whole vampire phenomenon in 1897.
Fast-forward 113 years and Twilight has become one of the most successful franchises on the planet, due in no small part to Pattinson’s portrayal of Edward Cullen, a chivalrous vampire who falls in love with a human girl.
Fortunately, that’s where the similarities end, unless the British actor secretly executes his enemies by thrusting wooden stakes through their bodies, which was Vlad’s favourite past-time in the 15th century.
Legend has it that he also liked to skin the feet of rebels, coat them in salt and let goats lick it off.
‘Without any myth or magic, we find vampires and royalty lurking in Pattinson’s life — making his story just as supernatural as the one he’s playing on screen,’ says genealogist Anastasia Tyler.
The researchers also discovered that Prince Harry and Prince William are Pattinson’s distant cousins on Prince Charles’s side, through a Yorkshire family called the Pickerings in the 1500s. Of course, that means that Vlad the Impaler is also their distant relative.
Is it time to start putting garlic in the State banquets?
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Hmmmm... coincidence?? I think not...
Except for Vlad's bigass mustache, they rather look alike... don't you think?? :downs:
they don't look anything like each other whatsoever. is that the joke?
lol robert faggotson
Bullshit.
Mother fuck Vlad the Impaler wasn't a fucking vampire
he's not actually related at all.
he is related to someone who married someone who is related to him. that means though he has no genes or anything really to do with him
Twilight isn't a bad film.
Shit. Looks like that Twilight Vampire cult thing is going to have a field day over this.
I'm supposedly related to Buffalo Bill, so I challenge you to a DUEL Robert Pattinson.
Robert Pattinson thought Justin Bieber was a girl, hates Twilight fans and made Taylor Lautner stand naked in the rain (complicated story) for half an hour, so he is okay in my book.
Except dracula doesn't sparkle. And he is cool.
[QUOTE=Robbobin;22885706]they don't look anything like each other whatsoever. is that the joke?[/QUOTE]
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But... but... but they're relatives! Can't you see the genealogy tree?? HURR DURR!! :downs:
Check this out (from the other source):
[quote]And "Twilight" isn't the only film series with creepy-good casting. Ancestry.com also uncovered an odd connection in a "Harry Potter" star's heritage.
Emma Watson — who plays Hermione Granger in the series — is a relative of a woman convicted of witchcraft in 1592.[/quote]
Ok. [B]WTF.[/B] Is this for real???
[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22885731]Twilight isn't a bad film.[/QUOTE]
I watched the first one.
That was 2 or so hours of my life never to be recovered, I got to sit and watch him being a wierd creepy fucking stalker and her not realise the pale kid who looked he was a fucking marble cadaver, was actually a marble cadaver stalker.
:argh: worst film ever.
Just about everyone on the planet is somehow related to everyone else if you make the necessary jumps. The fact that both of them are white really helps with that. He's not actually related it seems though as going horizontally and then up generally means THROUGH MARRIAGE. Unless there's some incest going on there is NO RELATION.
I totally saw this coming :colbert:
:wtc:
[QUOTE=Henry Townshend;22885773]Robert Pattinson thought Justin Bieber was a girl, hates Twilight fans and made Taylor Lautner stand naked in the rain (complicated story) for half an hour, so he is okay in my book.[/QUOTE]
wasn't that Daniel Radcliff
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or whatever his name is.
Aren't most of the population of the world related to royalty distantly anyway? And then royalty are often all related through marriages in the past...
Something to do with a period where just about every king, queen, prince and princess had about 40 lovers.
They're not even blood relatives (:rimshot:). It's like his dad's grandson's wife's dad's mistress' decendant.
[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22885731]Twilight isn't a bad film.[/QUOTE]
I suppose it wasn't all that bad but the annoying fans ruin it.
Also, although it isn't horrible I wouldn't say I liked it either.
I heard this on the radio today. I thought it was a coincidence.
I see a resemblance in the nose, but that's pretty much it
[QUOTE=bravehat;22885785]I watched the first one.
That was 2 or so hours of my life never to be recovered, I got to sit and watch him being a wierd creepy fucking stalker and her not realise the pale kid who looked he was a fucking marble cadaver, was actually a marble cadaver stalker.
:argh: worst film ever.[/QUOTE]
If that is the worst film you've ever seen.
Then you are a sad man.
Go back long enough and you could be related to anyone, I could be related to the fucking queen if I found a caveman we had in common. Ego, stop posting this shit.
[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22885873]If that is the worst film you've ever seen.
Then you are a sad man.[/QUOTE]
I tend to avoid shit films like the plague.
Although YOR: Hunter from the future was supposed to be shit.
That was the best thing I've ever saw on a screen in my entire life.
[QUOTE=cheesedelux;22885807]Aren't most of the population of the world related to royalty distantly anyway? And then royalty are often all related through marriages in the past...
Something to do with a period where just about every king, queen, prince and princess had about 40 lovers.
They're not even blood relatives (:rimshot:). It's like his dad's grandson's wife's dad's mistress' decendant.[/QUOTE]
god damn it :ninja:
[QUOTE=bravehat;22885948]I tend to avoid shit films like the plague.
Although YOR: Hunter from the future was supposed to be shit.
I knew it was a bad film, but I wanted to watch it anyway.[/QUOTE]
Why did you watch it then ?
[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22885980]Why did you watch it then ?[/QUOTE]
Bored out my ass when I was off uni ages ago and thought I'd see what all the hubub was about.
Actually watched YOR cause after the first two minutes I realised it was so bad it went full circle and became gloriously amazing.
Seriously, He lazily shoots a fucking teradactyl out the sky with a single bow shot, then perorms this with the body in insta rigor mortis
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When you go back that far, anyone can be related to royalty, especially if you include marriages like that.
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So basically, Robert Pattinson's distant ancestor also spawned the Queen Mother, and she married King George who had a distant ancestor who also spawned Vlad the Impaler?
So despite tracing his family back to "Pickerings of York" who presumably is a man who took his name from the town of Pickering in Yorkshire as a result of the Doomsday book, implying Robert Pattinson's family has been mapped back to 1086, they have found he isn't related to Vlad the Impaler at all?
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