HAMPTON COURT GHOST
The King has consented (says "The Times") to the opening to the public, of tho "Hiiiinted ,, Gallery at Hampton Court Pitliice, in order that certain intiirestijig iiud valuable pieces of tapestry, which have been recently repaired, may now be exhibited under more favourable conditions t.luu> has hitherto been possible. Tho chief claim oi' the gallery k its historical associations. Alons it J'rinr.o Kdward, aflenvnids Edward VI., was rarried lor his birjilism in the chapel.. Tt hns associations with all King Henry's wives. The "haunting" story relates to Catherine Howard. After her arrest, but before the King's departure from the palace, she was escaping along this gallery when sbc was seized, and carried hack, "while Henry, in spite of her piercing screams, continued his devotions unmoved." Since then, the story runs, a spectral female IVi.vm, dressed nil in white satin—sumo say in black or flnrV grey—has been seen at nisjht hurrying along the gallery to the closet door, on reaching which she turns back, with disordered garment?, uttering mn--| un'■nrthly shrieks till *he vanishes through the door at the end of the gallery.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 228, 14 June 1918, Page 3
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185HAMPTON COURT GHOST Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 228, 14 June 1918, Page 3
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