A Haunted Gallery.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 328, 26 December 1888, Page 4

A Haunted Gallery.

Hkke is tho mysterious hautited galley connecting the old 'Queen's apartments* with the royal chapel. The gallery >« haunted, it is said, by the shrieking ghost, of Queen Catherine Howard. The Queen was a fascinating, deceitful, delightful little creature, who had bi en sadly neglected in her youth and corrupted by debusing companionship, but full uf the doliyht of life and shrinking sensitively Irooi every touch ot pain. Yesterday she had been the pettod toy of her cruel husband ; to day she was doomed to the fearful tate that awaited Henry's discaided wives. In the horror of her position, surrounded by rough and brutal soldieis of the Kind's guard, she found a momentary chance of escape, and rushing through the long gallery ran to seek her husband, who was at that moment hearing mass in the chapel, to cling to his knees, to soften with her tears that heart of adamant. The guards at their utmost &peed followed the poor distracted creature. Just as she reached the King's closet they overtook her and dragged her back, her frenzied screams resounding through the palace. The gallery is now used as a kind of lumber room, but still the shrieks of the agonised Queen aie fco be heard at times. Anyhow, in Ernest Lawis interesting volume, 'Hampton Court in Tudor Times,' there is recent testimony to that effect. — 'All the Year "Round. 1

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