Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
Ghosts Visit England's Royal Palace
With
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where my mother received the tidines
that she was Queen of England" shc
said. Come"
Into the corridor we passed. tn.
princess first. holding the waverin"
candle. j noticed that the window
were tall and guiitless Of blind
outside the trees tossed their NAKED
branches. Along the walls heaNy
oaken settles, high -Lacke ed, Leather
seated chairs, massive armoires and
cupboards jostle each other beneath
priceless tapestries and dark por-
traits Of dead and gone potentatce
Dark and gloomy are these lon-.
high-roofed corridors, and this on"
was doubly SO in the leaping light
Of the candle, with the storm moanin-
outside and the shadows in THEW
silent, fantastic dance on walls ana
ceilings.
1.-THE princess and the other guest
had moved few steps in advauc"
OF mo, and I was about to hasten I"
catch UP when l suddenly felt %
| though had taken root TO the heavy
carpet. Fear froz. my veins. An icE
chill passed along my spine. l wa
conscious of something near, sonae-
thing not Of this earth
| Call it my imagination If YOU viii:
put it down TO the conversation, tn.
! storm, the weird shadows in the dir.
night But before my eyes there al
peared for a moment a tall lady 81
black. carrying bundle Of papers -
her arms. Il was the ghost Of Qucei.
| Mary.
| Only for al instant did the visio
last. AS suddenly as il had appeared
it fickered out. ] was left pantin-
for breath and not certain Of any -
my senses. Freed from the incubu-s
that had bound me. ] hurried aftsr
the princess and her guests. mus
have looked my fright, for the pri.
cess hastily said:
Why, you look as though you hal
| seen a ghost"
1t was on the tip OF my tongue {.
reply Il have" but l checked tn.
words and said something about b
ing nervous and chilled. Immediately
the princess, all Kindness as she a.
ways is, led MS into the room we haG
been seeking. II was a large, brigh
and airy-a cheerful contrast to
! the gloomy corridor. ] soon re
covered my spirits in the flow o.
the princess conversation. tellinr
reminiscent anecdotes of her greaL
mother; and l renewed my resolu-
ton not to tell her of what L though
l had seen.
! l prevailed upon a cousin of min.
who not only was an eQuerry to three
sovereigns, but a pallbearer at Queen
Victories funeral, to relate tn
stories Of Windsor and Hampton
Court.
4 was sitting one late Spring after
noon in the great library at Windsor
Castle" he began-for must tel
YOU he lived in the various palaces f."
many years during his periods i'll
waiting-"and l was thinking o:
nothing in particular when ] sud
denly became aware of curious
presence and looked up ard saw :,
rather elderly and slight lady clad
in q voluminouS hoped skirt and
ruff. She was carrying a largr
/ leather-Covered book under her arm,
and ! remember her nose perfectly
| for it was Very heaky and hooked
, She appeared To be deeply engrosSe,
in thought and just stood gains
| abstractedly out Of the window.
| X ::
HEOR n moment 1 was taken aback-
There was no one just like her
| around the castle and certainly u
! was not likely any one would be
! dressed in these picturesque but out
| of-date garments So ] SoOh- 10 h.
| and was more surprised than ever 70
receive no answer. The lady merely
| turned around. looked at me as if IN
; aware of my existence, then vanished
! into thin air, leaving me with cold,
! clammy sensation from head to feet.
| collecting my thoughts. | rushed
| out and told the officer on duty about
| the appartion.
! All he exclaimed, so you've seen
| her. too? 1t was Queen Elizabeth,
| of course
! Queen Victoria also claimed to
7 ,, hA 1f -
when sitting in the library one day,
| And on another occasion n younS
| guardsman, who had seen an ELDER!
| lady going into the library, went 1"
| tell her it was closing time. but found
nobody there, and on making inqui
| ries was told it must just be Queen
| Elizabeth.
Little wonder good Queen Bese
| haunts the castle. She loved Windsor
| dearly. When the plague was rife in
| London she removed her court !"
! Windsor. and had gallowS erected
| in the market place. where any one
| who came to town unauthorized was
| strung up without trial.
Queen Anne is also supposed 1"
| haunt Windsor. 1t was in the al
| coves of the library that she heard
the news OF the victory of Blenheim.
But it is Queen Eliza beths spiri-
that predominates at Windsor
| Jolly King Halls ghost has been
seen occasionally at Hampton Court.
lowering around the tennis court
which he so much loved in life. Fut
the real creepy. Embarrassing ghost
of that beautiful place is the ehust
OF katherine Howard. one of thu
! wives of King Henry VIII. Poor
Katherine lost her head in the Tow =
| of London.
Some say the murdered princes cf
| the Tower walk there at times. But
think the most interesting ghost
of that famous pile is the old raven
| that wears an iron bracelet. He is
supposed to have been a cotemporary
of Henry VIII, and to have witnessed
the execution OF Anne Boleyn."
Some say the ghost of Queen
| Elizabeth, who died in the Old
Palace, Richmond. still wanders back
| to the room where she waited
| long for a sign from her favorit,.
| Essex. But Mrs. Z. B. Lane. an
| American who now has her homo
there, has never seen her. One could
! believe that ghosts fingered at every
! corner of this magic old place where
a daughter of America has done her
utmost to preserve the associations
of the past. 1t is an abode where
restless spirits might we'll seek
peace.