The Topeka state journal., 1900-07-07
WHERE HISTORIC
GHOSTS WALK.
Several Spectres That Insist Upon
Making Themselves at Home in
the Abode of Royalty.


Royalty's ghosts are the longest lived
torments in the world of spectres. Other
ghosts may be laid or may decide to
cease from troubling mortal men and
women, but with the dead and gone royal
| parsonage who has been able to return
1t is different. For some reason the air
of court is just the atmosphere that
ghosts prefer above all other, and they
stay on and on, return again and
again to the mystification if not the hdr-
ror of those who chance to behold them
on the occasion of their visitations.
The last appearance of a royal ghost
! reported is at Hampton Court Palace,
where the appearance of a spectral hand
/ moving among the old Flemish tapestries
in the guard chamber has caused no end
| of CONSERVATION. Although the identity
| of the spectre is not known, it is thought
| to be that of some of the wives of
Henry VIII, for the ghosts of two of
| these unfortunate women have already
| been seen at Hampton Court on other
occasions. OF the two, Catherine How
ard seems to be the more troublesome,
for not only does she appear, but insists
upon shrieking wildly through the old,
mysterious haunted gallery"
1t was here that she escaped from her
chamber, when imprisoned there before
being sent to the Tower, and ran along
60 seek an interview with Henry VIII,
who was hearing mass in the chapel.
Just as she reached the door the guards
| seized her and carried her back, while
her ruthless husband, in spite OF the
piercing screams that were heard In all
parts of the palace, continued his de-
votions unmoved.
Jane Seymour is another OF Henry'S
| wives who Is said to haunt the old-world
rooms of this palace, and there is no
lack of testimony to show that spectre
has been seen to emerge from the door
way of the queens old apartments and
wander about with a lighted taper in
her hand over the stairs and in the
neighboring Silverstick gallery.
4 GENUINE GHOST. ~y@-
During the reign of King James H.,
or about 220 years ago, the city OF Lon
don voted that 1900 masses should be
said for the repose of the soul of Queen
Jane Seymour. the officially avowed in
tention being that of s'laying her ghost"
Although these masses were probably
said, as the payment for them still fig
ures on the city records, they do not
seem to have been eficacious, as the
ghost of the dead woman has been seen
several times since that day.
Hampton Court is not the only palace
that is haunted, however. From one end
of the British Isles to the other it would
De QluCulL 10 discover DdldCe LudL
is not haunted by one or more banishees.
Thus, Holyrood Palace, at Edinburgh,
is said to be haunted by the ghost Of
the murderer Rizzio, and it is claimed
that at least three royal spectres have
been seen at Windsor, they being the
ghosts of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth
and Charles 1.
If the old-fashioned conventional view
is to be accepted, and we are to believe
that ghosts haunt the earth because of
crimes committed in the flesh, Henry VIII.
must be supplied with excellent excuses
for furnishing a ghost. However that
may be, the records show that there are
many people who believe that they have
seen him stalking steadily and silently
around the old library room.
Both the Empress Frederick Of Ger
many, oldest daughter of the Queen,
and Mr.. Holmes, the librarian of Wind
sor, declare that they have seen the
ghost of Queen Elizabeth in the great
State Library. On the occasion when
Mr.. Holmes saw the spectre he was
reading in a corner of the room, and
the form passed him as If 1t did not
see him. Immediately he left his book
and followed the spectre until it sudden
ly disappeared through a closed door.
Although Mr.. Holmes had seen the ap-
partition of the long-dead Queen, with
coronet, ruff, jeweled stomacher and
voluminous skirt, the guard at the other
side of the door said that no one had
passed that way.