The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-01
STORY OF BRITAIN'S
HAUNTED PALACES
(London Answers)

things supernatural the news that a
"veiled specter' has recently been
seen on three separate occasions
promenading the corridors of Wind
sor castle need occasion no surprise
But it recalls story told by young
officer Carr Glyn of the grenadler
guards, some twenty years ago.
Mr. Glyn was reading book IN the
castle library when, glanclng UP, ne
saw the black yelled figure OF WON
an walk past him and disappear in the
inner library. AS she did not return,
he followed her; but found to MS
amazement that she had completely
vanished, although there was no means
of exit from the inner room
When he told his uncanny story the
following morning it created conster-
nation in the palace. especially wnen
it was discovered that three centuries
ago the room had had an exit at the
very place through which the black
lady had passed. 1t was generally De-
lieved that the mysterious inquire musl
have been that of Queen Ellzaoetn
herself of whose midnight appearance
in her old haunts in the castle many
stories are told.
But Queen Bess is only one of the
! several royal specters said to haunt
our royal palaces. The Duchess de
! Mazarin, one of the merry monarch
many favorites, has been seen more
than once in the rooms and corridors
of St. James palace, which is also SAID
| to be favorite haunt OF Nell GWyn
Of the saucy tongue and merry laugh
ter; and of that termagant beauty, the
Duchess of Cleveland.
When Henry's Wives Walk.
| Hampton Court palace. too, has the
reputation of being visited by the
shades of several great people VINO
have once walked in splendor" with
in it's historic walls. Strange tales are
told of spectral figures which vanish
when accosted; of mysterious noises,
the uncanny opening of doors without
visible agency, and of sounds OF mer-
riment and snatches of song proceed
ing from empty rooms.
But the most afrighting vision or all
! is that of white-robed figure run
ming down a corridor. with her long
hair streaming behind her, and disap-
pearing into the chapel This start
ling apparition is said to be that of
the unhappy Catherine Howard, the
second queen whom Henry VIII sent
to the eXecutioner's block; and who,
so long after her tragic death, repeats
an incident in her troubled existence
when, escaping from her guards, she
rushed into the chapel to beg for her
life from her tyrannous lord, who was
praying there.
Catherine of Aragon is also said to
haunt the palace of Hampton. where
her specter has been seen many a
time, clothed in black. and lighted
taper in her hand, walking up GER
tain staircase and disappearing
through the beautiful archway known
as the Queens Gate.
On the night before the death of
Frederick III, father of the eN-kalser,
a sentry declared that he had seen
the figure of an old woman. bowed
with age and carrying a broom in her
hand: and his story would certainly
have been scoffed at as the creature
of a dsordered brain had not sim
liar figure been seen on former oc-
casions. notably on the death OF the
emperor William I. This grotesque
, old lady. whose visits bode so little
, good to the house OF Hohenzollern. is
disrespectfully spoken Of as The
: Sweeper
A Herald Of Calamity.
Specters in white or even in black
are perhaps Ineligible. but what are
we to think of the red man." who is
said to haunt the Tuilieres and to
: have been seen by no less famous per
sons than Catherine de Medici and
. the great Napoleon. the latter OF
, whom is said to have held long con
versation with him on the eve of his
, Inflated Russian campaign.
During the night before the late EN-
' press of Austria was SO treacherOusly
( assassinated. a sentry on guard in the
: castle of Schonbrunn was fright enet
9 "out OF his wits" by the spectacle OF
= a beautiful woman, robbed in white
t and wearing long, flowing white veil
walking along the corridor where he
u was on duty. Thrice he challenged
n the trespasser. and had started in pur
: suit of her, when she vanished as sud
denly and mysteriously as she had ap
;. peared.
Z This was by no means the first ap
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