Fangs run in Robert Pattinson's family

ROBERT Pattinson isn't the only famous vampire in his family.

By The Newsroom

Published 25th Jun 2010, 11:28 BST

Updated 25th Jun 2010, 12:18 BST

Genealogists at Ancestry.com say the 24-year-old Twilight star is related, through a link to the British Royal family, to Vlad the Impaler – Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia – who is thought to have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.