The Dickinson press., 1905-06-17
NE ROYAL GHOSTS
6, EC7 YRS THAT PROWL ABOUT OLD
COUNTRY PALACES.


Queen IIIi@a!,et', EIs,. Weakness
Eol' windsor :l.:I Catherine of Ar
GsaG Eo" Hampton Court - Prus-
sis'a White Lady.
The report that Queen Elizabeth has
again Been seen pcomcnading the libra
rs OF u intsor castle reminds one Of
the curious fact that. with but one soli-
t;fl'y exception. these restless royalties
who cannot sleep peacefully in their
graves are women.
l. IS some years now since Queen
Ec&s was last caught i'll the act of re-
visiting her Old palace at Windsor, and
tic circumstances We're these: \ young
officer Of the guards was reading one
cvcnil.g in ti4c library when he saw a
woman. clad FROM head to heels in
,bl&cil walk slowly across the library
t>is5s ttfss iAto an adjacent room. The
,Ii.ttfcI, tnolUd by curiosity iii such an
unexpected sight, followed the lady
";..; - Ms i.lnuEcncnt found that she
hai vanished as completely from view
rs il The t!2or had swallowed her, and
this although the only exit from the
room Was tllC one through which he
Lad followed her.
WAY the wandering lady should on
s@ri slight evidence he identified as
Li'%Hbeth Of glorious memory is not
gGh.
firmly @c!;evrd that Anne Boleyn's
daughter sill tenants Il suit Of rooms
adjacent To ,hc library.
Hampton Court palace is richer than
the castle Of Windsor in royal spooks.
Catherine Of Aragon, in spite of her
not too pleasant memories of her lus-
band. Henry VIII. is said still to walk
in niHcii attire. taper III hand down one
OF Tie st4iT29%oS and TO disappear
thr01Gl! the "Quccn's gate" and, more
G;sconccrtius still. nenry's second
Catherine has, 50 they say, been seen
rushing along 4 corridor with stream
Ing hair ana white apparel, closely pur-
sued i}y equally unsubstantial soldiers
bent on capturing her.
I1iS is supposed! to be Il rc-cnHctment
ct q scene which actually took place
not many day.: before Catherine How
ards ;}o. Ii Oh Tower hill i'll 1912. Tho
unha1iF queen. Who was then Il pris-
cnoH II room adjoining the long gal
lory, escaped from her guards and rush
Ci away - throw herself at the feet
o. h"T royal husband and beg for mcr-
c!E. She vas pursued by her guards,
who oau"ht her at the door OF the chap
q WHARF IA2ury was praying and drag
%@1 her b&cI. again to her prison cham
be-.
III fatCd Anne Bclcyn does not seem
10 have ended her troubles on the block
at the Tower, for has she not been seen
driving down the avenue Of Blickicy
park behind four hoadlcss horses. driv-
en- by IN equally incomplete coach
I!aN? And fair I!osamonl seems doom
Cd to walk o nights along the river
BAN; 1T GodstoI'a, awaiting her royal
love-, who never keeps his t!ySt.
Eat Ln"lieh royalties have by 10
means & monopoly Of pDstnortem per
0nii,'lltion. There is q certain boauti-
ful white lady. very fair and quccnly,
who is SAID to haunt the rooms and cor
ri19rS of the castle Of SclOnbrunn.
Fair as tlle vision is. her appearances
arc never welcome for they are said
al'T&TS to herald Il death in the i'm
peria! family Of Austria. She was seen
in 1851 just before MaXimilian, en-
2cr9r Of Mexico and brother of the Aus.
triHn emperor, was foully murdered
and again before the deaths Of Arch
duke Rudolph and his mother the beau
tiful empress.
Tho royal house of Prussia also has
its white lady" who is only seen in
the palace at Berlin before the death
of some member Of the rcigning family
Unlike Der sister Of Schonbrunn castle
however, the white lady of Germany is
said to be i'll favored If not downright
ry7G,lsiya, and instead Of torch OF scep.
tor She carries in her hand q common
Or domestic broom; hence she has been
irrercrcntly christcned 'tilc sweeper
There are white ladies attached tC
o.hc" European courts, notably that OF
ITe&Sp-UaImStadt. the lady who inspir
q N'Hgner 'Lolengrin. but the odd.
cHt Of I'll these royal Wraitlls IS Ger
tai:ly the red man who confines hi:
patronage to the royalties Of France
lie used to dog the steps Of Catherine
:le' Afnlici, wife Of one French king
GD'l mother of three, along the corrl
t7l-,., a. tla TI,ilo,iac. ln ha i ~ long in.
terv!cW-. 50 it is chroniclcd, with the
great Napoleon before he started on his
III starred Russian campaign. and il
may have been through not following
the #rcctcr's advice that Napoleon had
such 4 sorry home coming. And it is
reported that he was seen by the En-
press Ellga,ic shortly before disaster
finally overlook the house Of Napoleon
--Lond0l Tit BITS.