Overview

• In Boy from the Valleys, released in April 2025, Luke Evans recounts meeting then-Prince Charles at a Prince’s Trust gala dinner at The Savoy Hotel in London.
• During the 2014 encounter, Charles revealed that his genealogy extends back to Vlad the Impaler and guided Evans through a detailed lineage to the 1400s.
• The monarch disclosed ownership of several Romanian estates and underscored his environmental interest in Transylvania’s forests.
• Charles first mentioned his descent from Vlad Tepes on a 2011 television program about Romanian forest conservation.
• The memoir’s publication has prompted media outlets to revisit the cultural and historical links between the British royal family and the 15th-century Wallachian ruler.