Through Queen Mary, the wife of King George V, who ruled from 1910 to 1936, the line stretches back, according to Mr. Beaucarnot, right to the princes of Transylvania and Walachia in Romania. That leads back in the 15th century to the princes Dracula. Among them figures the Voivode Vlad III, also known by his patronymic name Dracula, who was was posthumously dubbed vlad the Impaler. He inspired, with his cruelty, the writer Bram stoker’s famous vampire.