How is King Charles descended from the real Count Dracula?

In a special episode of the Daily Mail's Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things podcast, royal biographers Robert Hardman and Kate Williams chart the blood-soaked life of one of history's most villainous princes, Vlad the Impaler.Vlad ruled intermittently over a region called Wallachia, part of modern-day Romania, between 1448 and 1476. During the medieval period, the region sat at a crossroads between Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire, a precarious buffer state between the two opposing worlds.The prince's reign was marked by constant war and shifting alliances between rival powers. Historians still debate whether Wallachia's precarity hardened Vlad into a monster or whether he was simply what we would today call a psychopath.