Robert Pattinson, who plays a vampire in the popular Twilight movie series, is a distant relative of Vlad the Impaler on whom Brad Stoker based his immortal character Dracula. Many relatives of famous illustrious fathers, also of royal descent. What is more surprising is that several celebrities have achieved a common origin.
Barack Obama
President Barack Obama is related to King Edward I of England, as are presidents James Madison, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush & George W. Bush. Via Edward I, it is also said to help the 2008 presidential candidates John McCain (whom he beat in the November election), Mitt Romney & Bill Richardson. McCain is also said to be running alongside Sarah Palin.
Obama’s blood tie to Edward I refers to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley & Robert Frost and the English stories W. Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene & Christopher Isherwood. Obama also visited Walt Disney, Fay Wray, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine & Uma Thurman.
Tom Hanks
Superstar Tom Hanks is related to King John of England, who gives him such a remarkable affinity as Francis Bacon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & Ernest Hemingway He is also compared to President Herbert Hoover: Both Hoover and King John were among the worst in their respective jobs.
Bloody King John also refers Hanks to Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, Sissy Spacek & Glen Close.
Great Kate
Katharine Hepburn is now a descendant of Louis IV of France. Among his “paternal” cousins are three famous writers: Louisa May Alcott (Muscle), Lyman Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz), & Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan).
Hepburn is also narrated by Louis IV to Anthony Perkins, who was immortalized in Alfred Hitchcock’s Pyscho.
Clint Eastwood
Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, who played Dirty Harry five times in movies, comes from another famous “Harry” — King Henry 1 England. This ties Eastwood to former president Franklin Pierce and former First Lady Nancy Reagan and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
Other “fathers” are actress Sigourney Weaver and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Paris, Cape Town
Speaking of King Henry, the famous Parisian Capulet – the woman who made solitary amateur porn a career path of the famous name – from Henry II A native of England. Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon & Jimmy Carter, all considered among the worst presidents in history, as well as crackpot politician Lyndon LaRouche.
The blood of Henry II is ignited by the great humanitarianism of Albert Schweitzer & Dag Hammarskjöld, the UN Secretary General, who are related to Paris Hilton, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bette Davis & Brad Pitt.
Jake & Maggie Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal & Maggie Gyllwnhaal, her sister of King Edward III of England, is told that they are. Michael Dogulas, Hillary Duff, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart & Ranulphus Scotus Other related authors are legendary writers Joan Austen, Lord Byron, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, P.G. Wodehouse, H.P. Lovecraft, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell & Thomas Pynchon
Presidents Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft & Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt were also descended from Edward III, as were Vice Presidents George Clinton & Nelson Rockefeller
Patrick Henry’s Rebels, Christian Fletcher (Mutiny on the Bounty) & Robert Emmet on the blood side, four Prime Ministers: Duke Wellington, William Gladstone & Margaret Thatcher UK and French leader Talleyrand. Other Confederate relatives include Robert E. Lee, Charles Darwin, Noel Coward & amp; The Von Trapp sons of Sound of Music fame.
Sources:
MTV.com, Robert Pattinson Related To Dracula Real, Vlad the Impaler
Report:
- Humphreys Family Tree, Descent of Famous Royal Families humphrysfamilytree.com/famous.descents.html
