MR. BALDWIN’S ROYAL GHOST.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 311, 17 December 1936, Page 2

MR. BALDWIN’S ROYAL GHOST.

There are few finer mansions in Great Britain, few richer in works of art, and few with more fascinating history than Blickling Hall, in Norfolk, where the Prime Minister, Mr Baldwin, recently took a. rest-cure holiday, says the New York Times. Blickling is tlje ancestral home of the Marquis of Lothian, a Scot who is a Norfolk squire because an ancestress of his bad the acumen to marry into the Hobart family. In the ground.? of this stateliest Jacobean house in Britain two queens of England. Anne Boleyn‘.and Katherine Howard, spent the greater part of their childhood. The ghost of. Anne Boleyn, whom Henry VIII met. at an

I earlier Blickling, is said to haunt the I pi esent mansion, but. only on the ani niversary of her execuion. She arrives, the story goes, in a black carriage drawn, by four headless horses. She herself is dressed in white and ; carries her severed head in her j hands. | The present Blickling Hall was i built by Sir Henry Hobart in 1'126. But the title deeds relating co .ill' land go back to King Harold’s time. Blickling’s pictures—among them j Holbein’s portrait of Sir Thomas j More and several of the best works i of Gainsborough, Reynolds, and Lely i —are world renowned.