- Last living member of Dracula family seeks medieval castle
in England. Contact Vlad Dracula Prince Kretzulesco, Castle Dracula, Schenkendorf,
Germany. It sounds like a hoax. But it is deadly serious.
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- Prince Kretzulesco, the only person still bearing the
name of the ancient Romanian family of horror film fame, wants to move
to England after neo-Nazis tried to set his castle on fire.
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- In the castle in the Brandenburg countryside south of
Berlin, the man who will probably be the last Dracula says he is "too
frightened" to stay in Germany. Since March, arsonists have tried
10 times to set his castle on fire. Neo-Nazis painted a swastika on a tower
in the grounds. The 60-year-old prince has received death threats.
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- He said: "I have had enough of the mentality of
some people here. I am fraid to stay here. I would like to find a castle
in England from where I can run my business. If anyone is interested in
offering me theirs for a business partnership I would jump at the opportunity."
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- He says the English way of doing things appeals to him
because "they are good to foreigners. I like the liberal attitudes
in England. It does not matter if people are black, green or lilac."
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- Prince Kretzulesco became close friends in the Seventies
with direct descendants of the real Dracula family that inspired the mythical
count, travelling regularly to Paris and America to see them.
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- When it became clear there would be no male heir, the
late Katharina Olympia Caradja, a princess and direct descendant of the
original Romanian count adopted him (his name then was Ottomar Berbig)
into the family. While he would not be a blood relation, his legal adoption
would ensure that the most terrifying surname in European aristocracy survived.
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- Five years ago, the prince bought the castle in Schenkendorf
and filled it with his own antiques. No original Dracula family heirlooms
were handed down to him because, he says, all were stolen during the Ceausescu
dictatorship in Romania.
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