The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-28
QUEEN ELIzABErH's GHOST.
Seen ~ Grenadier In Broaa Daylight In the
windsor Castle Library.

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Windsor Castle Library.
Queen Elizabeth's ghost has recently been seen
walking In the library Of Windsor Castle in broad
daylight. To be more exact, a Lieutenant In the
Grenadier Guards, whose connections are highly
respectable. asserts that no saw q female figure
in black where no living person could be, and tho
librarian at Windsor says that his description
tallies with that OF the apparition Of the Virgin
Queen, who haunts that part Of the castle. Tho
story WAS frst told in lie Petit Journal OF Paris,
and on the London Daily Maths Investigating
the truth Of 1t the following extraordinary facts
came out:
The officer Is Lieut.. A. st. Leger Glyn, q
grandson OF tho frst Lord wolverton, who was
a member of the banking house Of Glyn. Mills s.
Currle, and q nephew Of DR.. Carr Glyn, the new
Bishop OF Peterborough. He is n years OF age.
the son Of a soldier. and Is described as q healthy.
matter-of-fact young man. He was sitting in tho
library OF Windsor Castle one afternoon reading
a history of Dorsetshire. when he became aware
Of some one passing into the inner library. lie
looked up and saw q female figure in
black. with black lace on the head falling to tho
shoulders. He did not pay much attention to II,
thinking 1t was some one reading In tho inner
room. Soon after. as 1t was I O'Clock. an attend.
ant came to close the library. Lieut.. Glyn asked
who the lady working In the other room was.
thai, q lady had just walked scros; the inner
Then wero can she be r asked the attend
ant she must have gone out Of a door In the
door, swe the man. Lieut.. Glyn thought
ihe matter e Mr.. Holmes, the ilbrsrian. who
asked the officer to describe the figure, and
then told him that he had seen the spparition Of
Queen Elizabeth. He said, that there were
but that Lieut. Glyn was the only man that had
seen II In modern times. Since then Mr.. Holmes
has sPen, much time in the library, day and
S.sf Dean sss ' 81 % siI n and rS several siG m %nissr 81 q
Nj. Holmes showed the scene of the appari.
ton to the Daily Mails reporter. Tho chair
Srss room In the library. In front Of Il / Is q i large
itery. the sidsss Of which are lined With BOOK.
the right. the windows Of which look out upon
windows OF which looking on the west make q
broadish space OF light, against which any ngure
;saa'eoFs n "a IN. ,o Salber sIS %o ~ p, Pc shs,Tp1y aMS 2
was built by Queen Elizabeth. and used by her
as a picture gallery In which she was accustomed
upon, those masterpieces of statecrsft which
have made her reputation what 1t is-stands a
Virgin Queen looks down somewhst severely
upon the spot where her shade has been so re-
Gently soen.'
Here il is that Lieut.. Glyn saw the apparition,
which passed from him along the gallery. turned
quickly to the right, and disappeared into tho
bay, from which In former times u staircase led
to the terrace, where Queen Elizabeth used to
promenade. The gallery has had the reputation
or being haunted from time out OF memory. The
present Empress Frederick Is said g have seen
the ghost when she was q little child.
The Dean OF Windsor 10 ready to believe that
Lieut.. Glyn SAW something supernatural, but he
doubts that 1t was the Virgin Queen. He be-
lieves moro strongly In the ,apparition, some
years ago OF King Charles l., whose spirit 10 said
TO visit u house In the Canons close, opposite
81. Georges Chapel one june 20. The last
person 10 whom this ghost made q mani
hesitation was Mrs. Boyd Carpenter, wife
the house as a Canon OF Windsor between
1882 and 1884. On June 20, late at night, while
she was reading in her bedroom, waiting for her
husband, to come up, she hoard steps approach
ing In the passage to tho room, saw the hasp
lifted and the door slowly open. but nobody APP
peared. After a while the door was closed again.
and she heard steps receding In tho corridor.
When her husband got upstairs she told him
what had happened, and NE rscollected that 1t
was the night on which the Royal Martyr was
supposed TO walk In that house.